RAND Corp. Says Water and Wastewater Treatment Should Be Top Priority in Nation-Building

April 19, 2006

The RAND Corporation has released a study which concludes that public health protection is the most important factor in determining whether a nation-building effort (like in Germany or Japan after WWII, and in Iraq and Afghanistan today) will be safely conducted. The report says that public-health protection depresses support for insurgencies and serves to build confidence in the occupational authorities.

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