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Bid to fight disease and pollution fuels fire of innovation
A fishmonger uses a fuel-saving stove at Dunga beach in Kisumu. Kenneth Ndua aims to increase access to safe drinking water and help women save on cooking fuel. PHOTO | FILE
The World Health Organisation identifies unsafe water and sanitation, and indoor air pollution as the two biggest contributors to ill health in sub-Saharan Africa.
It is estimated that one in every five children born each day do not live to celebrate their fifth birthday due to unsafe drinking water and poor sanitation that cause diarrhoea and eventually death.
