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The World Health Organization says unclean water, poor hygiene, and bad sanitation are linked to four percent of deaths in the world, and six percent of debilitating illnesses including cholera, dysentery, and typhoid.

世界卫生组织表示，不干净的水、糟糕的卫生条件和恶劣的卫生设施与世界上百分之四的死亡 和百分之六的退行性疾病有关，这些疾病包括霍乱、痢疾和伤寒。

Many charities are helping, including one group of volunteers based in California.

许多慈善机构都在提供帮助，其中包括一群总部设在加州的志愿者。

This is one of the drill bits. It's about four inches. This is a clay cutter.

这是其中一个钻头。大约长四英寸。这是一个泥土切割机。

Employing local drillers water wells for Africa has dug 230 wells in villages in Malawi, a landlocked country in Southeast Africa.

他们雇佣当地钻探人员在马拉维的村子里挖了230口井，马拉维是东南部非洲的内陆国家。

The group has identified 30 other sites for future wells.

该组织还确定了另外三十个地点，确定了未来的水井位置。

Dahlan was working for a faith-based organization in 1994, when he saw how rural Africans got their water.

1994年，达岚正在为一个以信仰为基础的组织工作，当时他看到了非洲农村人口是如何获得水的。

Even if you have, you know, a local river nearby, it's polluted by wild animals, livestock.

即使附近有一条当地的河流，它也被野生动物和牲畜污染了。

They wash in it, they drink it, they bathe in it, you know, it's their only point of water, so every open water source is contaminated.