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U.K.'s DfID, USAID, Others Announce Commitments To Improving Water, Sanitation Worldwide
U.K. International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell on Friday "announced a doubling of the U.K.'s effort to provide clean water and sanitation to the world's poorest countries," the Guardian reports (Elliot, 4/20). At a High-Level Meeting on Water and Sanitation in Washington, D.C., Mitchell "announced that the U.K., through [the Department for International Development (DfID)], would double the number of people it reached with aid in water, sanitation and hygiene education in the next two years, going from 30 to 60 million people globally by 2015," according to a UNICEF press release (4/20).
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