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World Bank – Water, sanitation and children’s health: evidence from DHS surveys
This paper combines 172 Demography and Health Survey data sets from 70 countries to estimate the effect of water and sanitation on child mortality and morbidity. The results show a robust association between access to water and sanitation technologies and both child morbidity and child mortality. The point estimates imply, depending on the technology level and the sub-region chosen, that water and sanitation infrastructure lowers the odds of children to suffering from diarrhea by 7-17 percent, and reduces the mortality risk for children under the age of five by about 5-20 percent.
The effects seem largest for modern sanitation technologies and least significant for basic water supply.

World Bank – Water, sanitation and children’s health: evidence from DHS surveys (PDF; 0.6 MB)
 
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