泛美开发银行为了改善海地的饮用水基础设施 — — 毫不夸张地说，海地的饮用水状况是世界上最糟糕的 — — 提供的大约5400万美元贷款，为防止致命的水致疾病提供了可行的途径。 这些贷款原计划用于帮助世界西半球上最贫穷的国家实现其饮用水权利，它们及其可以挽救的生命不应该在一个深思熟虑的政治权力游戏中成为牺牲品。
Roughly $54 million in IDB loans for water infrastructure in Haiti, home to literally the world’s worst water, offered a proven path to preventing deadly water-borne diseases. Designed to assist in fulfilling the right to water in the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere, these loans and the lives they could have saved instead have become pawns in a deliberate political power play.