sanitation

Advances in sanitation, medicine, productivity, etc. have made life so radically different that comparing a standard of living from one era to the next is nothing but a curiosity.

Income over Time, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

"Affirms that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity"

Peter H. Gleick: A Long Time Coming: The Human Right to Water

They dealt daily with no running water and the very basic in sanitation as they waited for improvements from the state.

The Sanctuary of Outcasts (copy)

I'd toss in vaccination and antibiotics in the developed world, but water sanitation is the one big thing.

Health Care Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

"Affirms that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity"

Peter H. Gleick: A Long Time Coming: The Human Right to Water

So sanitation is bad for a lot of the city, even beyond where the tent camps are.

Haiti's Cholera Epidemic Slows But Stays Deadly

Lack of sanitation is one of the greatest risks in Port-au-Prince, as more than a million people now live in 116 improvised camps without latrines in school yards, soccer stadiums and even the front yard of the presidential palace, said Steve Hollingworth, chief operating officer for CARE.

U.S. military boosts aid to quake-ravaged Haiti

They dealt daily with no running water and the very basic in sanitation as they waited for improvements from the state.

Archive 2009-09-01

"Affirms that the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, as well as the right to life and human dignity"

Peter H. Gleick: A Long Time Coming: The Human Right to Water

The idea that the Jewish dietary laws were primarily about sanitation is naive at best, and doesn't explain why Jesus threw them out …

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