Caught short: how a lack of toilets and clean water contributes to malnutrition
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- Caught short: how a lack of toilets and clean water contributes to malnutrition
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WaterAid’s media report, Caught short, reveals the worst places in the world for childhood stunting.
Globally, one child in every four suffers from stunted growth, which not only affects a child’s height but also impinges on their emotional, social and cognitive development. Stunting is the consequence of malnutrition in the first two years of a child’s life and is largely irreversible after that age.
The report aims to highlight that it’s not just a lack of food which causes malnutrition, but that a lack of access to a safe, private toilet and clean water plays a major role too.
