web Photo: SANAA, 9 April 2009 (IRIN) - Contaminated water is an ever-present and growing problem across Yemen. "Four years ago my three-year-old son died of acute diarrhoea. The doctor told me the disease was caused by contaminated water," Fawziah Ismael from Bani Matar District, near the capital Sanaa, told IRIN. She now boils the water she gets from a well. Poor sanitation, the lack of sewage treatment plants or effluent from them, the over-use of pesticides and fertilizers, and factory discharges are the main causes of polluted water. An unpublished 2005 report by parliament's water and...
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