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Dick Durbin: “We've reached 76 million people with water, 58 million with…”

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Published | Video Starts at 06:08

You joined me when you were a member of the Senate in the Paul Simon Water for the World effort to bring clean drinking water and sanitation to some of the poorest people on earth. We've reached 76 million people with water, 58 million with sanitation. That program is still on the books. Are we going to fund it? Yeah, we are. And in fact, it's about 100 million in total that we'll be spending again this year. (06:08–06:13)

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Asserts that the Water for the World effort has provided water to 76 million people and sanitation to 58 million.

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