Opinion

Small-scale sanitation systems could help save billions of lives

By Mathew Dickerson: Tech Talk
December 31 2021 - 12:00pm
A functioning sanitation system is crucial to our modern living standards. Picture: Shutterstock.
A functioning sanitation system is crucial to our modern living standards. Picture: Shutterstock.

We often marvel at the wonderful health system we have and the improvements in prevention and treatment of diseases that has seen an increase in average life expectancy from just 52.9 years for people born in 1900 to 82.9 years for people born today.

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