Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

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“The Latino media played it more as how will this affect you, how will it affect your job, how will it affect your kids. They were much closer to their audience, in terms of the direct effect.”

“Clouds grossly affect the greenhouse effect on the planet. So they play a very profound role in weather and climate. Yet taken altogether they are one of the most poorly understood aspects of the climate change problem.”

“It's not that drought effects the amount of water in the ground. Drought affects the amount of water that we use.”

Obesity affects every aspect of a people's lives, from health to relationships.

“This means that the policy effectively does not address high schools at all because it won't affect the status quo.”

“There are going to be jobs coming out of this that affect everybody everywhere. There are ripple effects you just can't calculate.”

“They also effected sales and transfers before we reached agreements on the sale itself or the conditions of workers affected by the transfers.”

“It means that the toxic effect on the river would be unpredictable, as the way combinations of toxic waste affect the environment is not studied enough.”