UNICEF PROMOTION OF HOUSEHOLD WATER TREATMENT AND SAFE STORAGE IN UNICEF WASH PROGRAMMES January 2008 PROMOTION OF HOUSEHOLD WATER TREATMENT AND SAFE STORAGE IN UNICEF WASH PROGRAMMES Why is household water treatment and safe storage an important intervention for preventing disease? Unsafe drinking water‚ along with poor sanitation and hygiene‚ are the main contributors to an estimated 4 billion cases of diarrhoeal disease annually‚ causing more than 1.5 million deaths‚ mostly among children
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collected showed that Clorox Household Cleaner was not significantly different than the Clorox Toilet Bowl cleaner. This is due to the fact our calculated P-value was 11.45%‚ which is larger than the 5% maximum allowed to us to be able to support the alternative hypothesis. This indicates there was not support for our alternative hypothesis‚ causing us to reject it. In doing so‚ we had to accept our null hypothesis. Our Null hypothesis states the Clorox Household Cleaner will not inhibit E. coli
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Chapter 4 TAX INCENTIVES FOR HOUSEHOLD SAVING AND BORROWING Tullio Jappelli & Luigi Pistaferri We thank Patrick Honohan‚ Alberto Musalem and seminar participants at the World Bank Conference of April 8-9‚ 2002‚ for useful comments and Tea Trumbic for research assistance. Introduction Modern theories of intertemporal consumption choice emphasize that individuals may save for variety of motives: to smooth life-cycle fluctuations in income (the retirement‚ or life-cycle motive)‚ to face
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Abstract This research proposal is being presented to examine if adolescents are most at risk for abusing and assaulting their dating partners because there is a direct or an intermediary association from exposure to dysfunctional behavior at home‚ at school‚ or in their community. These influences not only affect how youths behave‚ but also what they believe about acceptable forms of behavior in their relationships. Dating violence is defined by the United States Department of Justice as:
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PROJECT SYNOPSIS GUIDE: Prof. Mathew Jose Dept of commerce Submitted by: Lakshmi T R I Mcom No 3814 11/06/2012 INTRODUCTION In economics‚ inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. When the general price level rises‚ each unit of
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Literature Review on households / individual carbon footprints Households’ carbon footprints have fluctuated on a regular basis for many years. Why is this the case? Surely our carbon footprint should be reducing with ever increasing pressures from Governments and NGOs to consider the consequences of our lifestyles on the future of our planet. This is not the result though‚ “our needs and desires are expressed in the consumer demand for commodities‚ and it is this demand for goods and services which
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Alex Rankin Mr. Maus Sophomore English 1 April 2012 Facebook: Negative Effects on the Teens of Today Facebook can be very dangerous for the lives of teens. Many teens of today say that Facebook is positive because it can improve communication between other teens‚ which is true‚ but the real stated facts about the site are that Facebook can cause psychological disorders‚ depression‚ and can affect grades in a negative way. Facebook can cause many psychological disorders. Two of the major disorders
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sexually active. Being sexually active then puts teenage women at the risk of becoming pregnant. Teenage pregnancies have constantly been a problem in the United States. Not only does teen pregnancies affect the mother and the child‚ they also affect the American society as a whole. Nonetheless‚ the high rates of teen pregnancies can be decreased. The use of contraceptives such as birth control and/or condoms are both solutions to help reduce the number of teenage pregnancies. Having the parents sit
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should be raised to a higher age for safety reasons. The reason I say this is because teens text and drive and put themselves and other people in danger. Teens are increasing car wrecks. They are also increasing their injuries. Teens don’t know much of the consequences that come with driving. They party and drink‚ and when they drive drunk‚ that’s another wreck and death waiting to happen. A lot of teens just want a car to drive‚ they don’t really drive the proper way . The driving age should
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to the extreme. The advances in the cell phones have had a large impact on everyone‚ but especially today’s youth. Teens have taken the use of technology to an unsafe level. These bad habits can affect them for the rest of their lives. Teens are to distracted by their cell phones. Texting is causing teens to be distracted while driving‚ limiting their social skills and is causing teen texting tendonitis. Traffic crashes are the leading causes of death in the United States (Berry). Many traffic crashes
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