Comments on: Beware of band-aids

By: Mike Moffatt

Mike Moffatt — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:48:12 +0000

“I suspect that a significant fraction of the 8 million who died from bad water would still die from some of these other causes in a short period of time.”

Of course, there’s the other side of the coin - people who don’t die from the water (so aren’t counted in the statistic) but still develop a serious illness - they would be helped here as well.

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:53:41 +0000

Felix: Ouch, you’re right. I’m a theory guy .. guess I need some data to back up my crazy ideas.

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:28:35 +0000

Let’s say that your “significant fraction” is 50%. Then cleaning up water still saves 4 million lives, if not 8 million. You got “a more broad approach” which does better than that?

By: Chewxy

Chewxy — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:22:24 +0000

The math.. is wrong…

It should read:

(Titanic + Twin Towers)x2000=water