ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses disease and the lack of basic food, water, and sanitation requirements from a global perspective. Using the World Development Bank's dollar purchasing power parity, this means that more than half the world is in poverty. One of the most vicious problems in the world is poverty. Poverty is a lack of resources that can be interpreted as a paucity of the basic goods of agency. In the disease cases, there are strong correlations between poverty and disease that reflect the dialectical model. The major dialectical cause/effect of poverty is the persistence of infectious disease. The lack of attention to creating potable water for the economic underclass of the world along with sorry sanitation systems creates the conditions for water-borne diseases, water-washed diseases, water-based diseases, and water-related insect vectors. These four scenarios are responsible for a very large share of the world's infectious diseases.
