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Safe Water In Madagascar
Imagine living in a world where you have to use the bathroom in front of everyone you ever knew?

Or a world where your hands are always grimy and dirty not because you don’t want to but because you can’t.

This is how a majority of the citizens in Madagascar live and it isn’t right that Every single day 11.7 million people don’t have access to the clean or pure water they need to survive. It isn’t air that because of one small mistake in their past. The whole of Madagascar has to deal with the fact that they can’t reach safe or pure water.

Madagascar is an amazing country famous for its wildlife and landscape yet across the island over half the population lives without access to safe water. It's home to thousands of animal species, such as lemurs, Panther Chameleon and Tomato Frogs , animals who are found nowhere else. They also have an assortment of rainforests, beaches and reefs. Near the bustling capital, Antananarivo, is Ambohimanga, a hillside complex of royal palaces and burial grounds, as well as the “Avenue of the Baobabs,” a dirt road lined by massive centuries-old trees.
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Inadequate drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are important risk factors, particularly in low-income settings. In 2011, an estimated 768 million people relied on ‘unimproved’ water supplies, which are thought to have high levels of pathogen

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