Recent hurricane activity highlights risks to populations lacking clean water

In hurricane-ravaged Haiti, families are washing and bathing in dirty flood water from the storms - with no clean water for cooking. After a damaging hurricane, the problem of inundation by flood water affects those who previously had access to clean water and those who didn't - but in poor regions without the ability to pay for bottled water in an emergency or the ability to buy fuel to boil water, the crisis is exacerbated. Proper infrastructure including piped water and adequate sewage and drainage would do much to abate the problem.