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Update 67: "Water: preventing a crisis" - now available online



Nothing is more important for health than a supply of pure water. Diarrhoea, caused by a lack of safe drinking water, is the biggest killer of children and a major cause of sickness in adults world-wide. At any one time, half the world’s hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from water-borne diseases.



In this issue:

- Editorial - Water: preventing a crisis

- How will water shape the 21st century?

- Water as a public health good

Roger Aergeerts, WHO European Region

- Europe’s water law: a stronghold against commercialisation

Stefan Scheuer, European Environmental Bureau

- Privatisation arrives in Ukraine

Svetlana Slesarenok, MAMA-86 and Women in Europe for a Common Future

- Civil Society unites in water policy

- Resources on water and health

Policy:

- Affordable medicines threatened in Europe

Greg Perry, European Generics Association

- Cancer epidemic blamed on nuclear power

Friends of the Earth Europe

EU Presidency:

- Greek Health Minister backs "shared competence"

Regular features:

- EU developments in health

- Agenda and MEP’s questions

- News in brief

- Health corner: EPHA member activities

- EPHA in action

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Last modified on September 17 2003.

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