Caption: WATER AND SANITATION, PHILIPPINES. Cebu City. Woman collecting water from a submerged standpipe. These families are too poor to buy homes inland with access to clean water. They are forced to build make shifthouses along estuaries which are flooded for six to eight months a year. There is no sanitation system and rubbish is dumped in the water. Many people in the community are affected by disease. CDREF00199

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