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Reducing the Effects of a Silent Killer: Solar Cookers and
Household Air Pollution
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exposure.
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• countries
• Women and their young children spend 3 to 7 hours a day exposed to cooking smoke
• Inhaling cooking smoke can result in respiratory illnesses:
• weight, infant mortality, and cataracts
families in areas of abundant sun. According to a Global Alliance for
gender equality, and environmental sustainability.”
Outcomes
Women who solar cook:
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• and using retained heat cookers with both
• Use free solar energy to pasteurize drinking water by killing waterborne pathogens
urgently needed to save lives, improve health and break the cycle of energy poverty for three billion people.
Nepal 2010 Photo Credit: Allart Ligtenberg
