Not a drop to drink: Natural and unnatural disasters leave millions without clean water

摘要

December 26, 2004 will remain in the minds of many as the day the world was swept away by water. The 9.0 earthquake originating in the Indian Ocean sent waves to spill over shorelines in South and Southeast Asia and East Africa, carrying more than 220,000 people to an instant demise, and rendering another five million homeless. Hundreds of refugee camps have been set up all over the Indian Ocean basin in desperate efforts to meet the basic needs of those who survived.