Image from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_day_in_the_rural_life_in_India_2013.jpg Silver in Pot (SIP) Method I nfant mortality rates are some of the highest in India and other south Asian countries and a major cause of this is polluted water primarily for drinking and some for washing hands before meals, mouth wash, washing fruits and vegetables that are eaten raw. With increasing population, pollution of water bodies has increased. Use of outdoors as toilets has increased such pollution. As a result drinking water has become less than healthy in most areas. While the rich are able to use expensive devices to purify the water, the poor manage without any. For some, even boiling and cooling water for drinking is too expensive or too time consuming. The result is that health of all suffers and when it comes to the most vulnerable – infants and children - many die as a result of it. While an effort is needed on many fronts to improve the quality of wat...
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