The investment in family planning not only saves lives but also brings great savings in the health, education and environmental sectors. With fewer children to educate, governments can expand drinking water and sanitation services to more of the population, which in turn means reducing waterborne diseases and deaths from diarrhea. When population growth slows, there is less pressure on the limited resources of land and water, and less environmental deterioration due to deforestation, salinization of the land and air pollution..
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