Withholding Water: Cholera, Prejudice and the Right to Water in Haiti

Withholding Water: Cholera, Prejudice and the Right to Water in Haiti

Scientists have shown that the cholera pathogen came to Haiti with foreign UN troops who carried the bacteria in their bodies, and whose military base was dumping its sewage into a nearby river. The imported disease has claimed more than 7,000 lives and continues to ravage communities across Haiti. Despite billions in post-earthquake aid dollars and hundreds of human

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