Haiti and Cholera

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contamination. The reasons of water contamination in Haiti are due to the earthquake that happened in January of the same year, the populations living in Haiti and the extremely favorable climate conditions. The earthquake that stroke Haiti’s sewage system, allowing the water that was used in bathrooms to mix with water that was used to drink. As well, UNICEF reports say that before the earthquake happened people had a lot of problems with water, sanitation and hygiene. Statistics say that only four out of 10 Haitian children had access to sanitation and only one out of ten in the rural areas, which covers 40% of the territory of Haiti. 5, Only five children out of ten could drink potable water from their home and only one out of twenty-five in the rural areas. 7 Very few schools had proper hygiene systems; most of the houses did not have proper sanitation and half of the rural population used to defecate in open air. 5,8 After the earthquake in Haiti, UNICEF intervened and ...

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conditions such as increased salinity and warmer temperatures in areas already suffering from poor sanitation and lack of clean water access. The Category 1 hurricane that hit Haiti’s coasts on Friday brought with it gale force winds of 85 miles per hour. The wind and excessive rainfall have caused flooding in many parts of the country, and many fear that cholera will spread even more easily now with increased sanitation problems that could put raw human waste in the streets.
The second main problem of Haiti, are sanitory and hygienic systems. People before and after the earthquake, had little access to proper sanition and had little hygiene. Very few schools had proper hygiene systems; ...

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