More great resources to come. Please leave us your email address and we will e-mail you updates as they occur. 9.2720 Addressing Environmental Health Issues Pollution, poverty and population growth are a powerful triad, linked through a complex web of cause and effect.
Environmental health is very much connected to human health and development.
Clean water and access to basic sanitation are crucial. Exposure to lead has long been known to compromise children s educational potential. More recently, scientists suspect that chemicals like dioxin could be seriously and systematically undermining human reproductive processes. Environmental stewardship can save women s lives by protecting their health and by preserving the resources to guarantee us all a sustainable future. The situation More than 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, while half of humanity lacks adequate sanitation.