This is a very timely reflection on water and sanitation issues, specially related to the tragedy going on in Zimbabwe. I would like to highlight the following statement, cruel reflect of the banality of developing countries problems, in the eyes of developed ones:
"The environmental causes aren't related to climate change or global warming," she [Ms. Blocks, director of the Blacksmith Foundation, a charity whose aim is to clean up pollution hotspots in developing countries] says. "And it seems that people in the US couldn't care less if you can't relate an issue to global warming."
The idea has been longly sustained by Bjørn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus, in the sense that abstract, mega-solutions have left no budget for little but effective projects. It seems to be the point where the money is invested, and how good you look at doing it.