sanitation
Example Sentences
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Surrounded by floodwaters, their hamlet of thatch and mud homes had been battling a massive outbreak of cholera, a deadly disease spread by poor sanitation.
From Salon
Flooding is bringing raw sewage into the streets, as water-management and sanitation infrastructure is destroyed, and improvised latrines spill over.
The United Nations, in its Sustainable Development Goals, says every person should have access to water and sanitation.
From Los Angeles Times
Fewer wars and better sanitation and medical practices meant higher living standards.
From Literature
Memphis politicians praised Bartow’s team as a unifying force in their divided city, where racial tensions had remained high since the sanitation workers’ strike and Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
