"The country has 6.7 cubic miles of water, but 48% of the city
population and 25% of rural dwellers do not have safe water. According
to the World Health Organization, 80% of all disease inBurkina Fasois
caused by unsafe water."
The above is a quote from a one paragraph statement on the evironment
that was printed from the internet, but unfortunately there was no
webpage address included on the printout. I would like to find the
webpage this was printed from and/or similiar statistics on
environmental water issues in Burkina Faso.

Dear robert999-ga,

I cannot find the document to which you referred. I have detailed
below various sources which should provide the information you
require.

In your question you quoted "According to the World Health
Organization, 80% of all disease in Burkina Faso is caused by unsafe
water."

I cannot find this quote, but it may be taken from a figure which
appears in many sources:
"The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80% of all
sickness in the world is attributable to unsafe water and sanitation"
quoted from "Battling Waterborne Ills in a Sea of 950 Million", The
Washington Post, February 17, 1997.
Source 
http://www.water.org/crisis/disease.html

Or from this source,
"unsafe water is responsible for 80% of all diseases and 30% of deaths
in developing countries"
Summary Outcome of UNU's Sixth Global Environmental Forum
http://www.unu.edu/hq/rector_office/press-archives/press97/pre-17.97.html
http://www.undpi.am/bulletin/bul_16/iyfw.html


This document outlines the geography, environment, water supply and
desertification in Burkina Faso.
http://www.odi.org.uk/rpeg/soil_degradation/bflit.pdf

This pdf file is on Household Water Resources and Rural Productivity
in Sub-Saharan Africa:  A Review of the Evidence. African Economic
Policy Discussion Paper Number 69 May 2001

It contains two tables. The first titled "Access to safe water and
sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa"
It contains the following data: Burkina Faso, date 1988, population
1,879,443, urban access to water 26%, rural access 50%. Population
with sanitation in 1988 5%.

Table 2 details changes in rural population without safe water since the mid-1980s 

There is also some very detailed information for the Sub-Saharan
region as a whole which you may find useful.
http://www.hiid.harvard.edu/pub/pdfs/673.pdf


Survey of diarrhoea among children in Burkina Faso.
http://www.ciet.org/www/image/library.html#burkinafaso
http://www.ciet.org/www/image/download/bfaso2pg.pdf

Global Development Research Center
Water Crisis
Table on "access to safe water/sanitation, life expectancy and under-5 mortality"
Appendix 2
http://www.gdrc.org/uem/water/water-crisis.html


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