(AP) - BANGKOK - Laos is losing nearly $200 million a year, or 5.6 percent of its gross domestic product, due to poor sanitation and the resulting disease outbreaks that come from dirty water and a lack of toilets, the World Bank said Thursday. Guy Hutton, a senior economist with the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program, said their study found that the largest share of the $193 million in losses comes from the cost of treating 3 million cases of disease each year linked to poor sanitation as well as the 6,000 premature deaths. Other significant costs are the expense of having to build...
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