{"id":3697,"date":"2018-01-09T12:36:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/en\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2018-01-09T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T12:36:22","slug":"pakistan-polluted-water-kills-tens-of-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2018\/01\/09\/pakistan-polluted-water-kills-tens-of-thousands\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: polluted water kills tens of thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barely fifteen days old, Kinza whines quietly in a hospital in Islamabad, suffering from diarrhea and infection of the blood: water, increasingly rare in Pakistan, reaches dramatic levels of pollution, making tens of thousands of victims.<\/p>\n<p>Cloaked in a colorful blanket, Kinza moves in slow motion, like a tiny doll. His mother Sartaj, poorly dressed, does not understand: &#8220;every time I give him his bottle, I boil the water.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is the &#8220;water of the canal&#8221; of Faizabad, a district of the capital, that she says drink daily. The streams running through the city are nevertheless covered with filth.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN and the Pakistani authorities, between 30% and 40% of diseases and deaths are linked to poor water quality. &#8220;This is the number one problem in terms of public health,&#8221; says Professor Javed Akram, Dean of the Medicine Faculty of Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, 53,000 Pakistani children die of diarrhea after drinking unsafe water, says UNICEF. Typhoid, cholera, dysentery and hepatitis are common (&#8230;)<br \/>\nRead the article on AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely fifteen days old, Kinza whines quietly in a hospital in Islamabad, suffering from diarrhea and infection of the blood: water, increasingly rare in Pakistan, reaches dramatic levels of pollution, making tens of thousands of victims. Cloaked in a colorful blanket, Kinza moves in slow motion, like a tiny doll. His mother Sartaj, poorly dressed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[291,155],"tags":[347,479,1214,1076],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asia-and-oceania","category-latest-news","tag-kills","tag-pakistan","tag-polluted","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}