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Turning slums around: the case for water and sanitation

There is an unacceptably weak global policy response to the water and sanitation crisis in the rapidly expanding slum areas of the developing world. Without a serious commitment to redress the low political and financing priority given to sanitation and water in housing and urban development, and slum upgrading, the growing challenge of urbanisation risks setting off an unmanageable health, education and economic crisis.

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