Financing for the Realization of the Rights to Water and Sanitation 2011, para. 37
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In discussing the costs of investing in water and sanitation it is easy to lose sight of the benefits. Indeed, the economic costs of not spending more on water and sanitation are potentially much higher. In developed nations, advances in life expectancy and child mortality accompanied economic growth only after governments began making substantial investments in water supply and, more importantly, in sanitation.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation