News Puzzle
FirstNews
Issue 439
14th - 20th Nov 2014
Front Page: Crossword
Read this Front Page story from this week’s First News, then have a go at the crossword. All the
answers to the crossword are words in the article. These words are underlined for you.
WORLD TOILET DAY
IF you’re reading this and you have a toilet, you are luckier than one billion people across the world.
Every year, on 19 November, World Toilet Day is a chance to get involved in the
global movement for toilets and sanitation for all. It is a day to raise awareness about
all the people in the world who do not have a toilet to go on – even though all
humans have a right to water and sanitation.
In 2013, the United Nations decided that 19 November would be made UN World
Toilet Day. It’s a day to take action, to help people without toilets.
Of the world’s seven billion people, 2.5 billion people do not have proper
sanitation, like running water. One billion people still have to wee and poo in the
open. Apart from the embarrassment of this, it also spreads diseases including
cholera, typhoid, hepatitis and diarrhoea. Shockingly, last year, 1,000 children died
every day from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation.
Visit the UN World Toilet Day website unwater.org/worldtoiletday to learn more
about the sanitation crisis and how you can get involved. Or you could hold an event
at school to raise money for worldtoilet.org.
ACROSS
3) Illnesses, sicknesses you can catch
(plural noun, 8)
5) Discomfort, shame, awkwardness
(noun, 13)
9) Beginning with the letter ‘h’, this disease
inflames your liver.
(noun, 9)
10) 1,000,000,000 as a word (noun, 7)
DOWN
1) Beginning with the letter ‘c’, this is an
infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the
small intestine. You mostly get it from infected
water and it makes you sick and have diarrhoea, or runny poo. (noun, 7)
2) Another word for loo, the place where you do a wee or poo (noun, 6)
4) This is the adjective to describe the disease that gives you frequent, loose,
watery poo, or ‘stools’. You can get this disease after being in contact with
someone else who has it, or you may get it from food poisoning - after
eating contaminated food or drinking water. (adjective, 10)
6) Keeping people healthy, especially to do with the water we use. This
means making sure our drinking water is clean and our waste water and
sewage (poo and wee) are properly disposed of, so we don’t pick up germs and
diseases. (noun, 10)
7) Beginning with the letter ‘t’, this is an infectious bacterial fever which causes red spots on your body and pain in your
intestines. (noun, 7)
8) Do something - about the fact many people do not have access to a toilet (noun, 6)
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News Puzzle
FirstNews
Issue 439
14th - 20th Nov 2014
Front Page: Crossword
Read this Front Page story from this week’s First News, then have a go at the crossword. All the
answers to the crossword are words in the article.
WORLD TOILET DAY
IF you’re reading this and you have a toilet, you are luckier than one billion people across the world.
Every year, on 19 November, World Toilet Day is a chance to get involved in the
global movement for toilets and sanitation for all. It is a day to raise awareness about
all the people in the world who do not have a toilet to go on – even though all
humans have a right to water and sanitation.
In 2013, the United Nations decided that 19 November would be made UN World
Toilet Day. It’s a day to take action, to help people without toilets.
Of the world’s seven billion people, 2.5 billion people do not have proper
sanitation, like running water. One billion people still have to wee and poo in the
open. Apart from the embarrassment of this, it also spreads diseases including
cholera, typhoid, hepatitis and diarrhoea. Shockingly, last year, 1,000 children died
every day from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation.
Visit the UN World Toilet Day website unwater.org/worldtoiletday to learn more
about the sanitation crisis and how you can get involved. Or you could hold an event
at school to raise money for worldtoilet.org.
ACROSS
3) Illnesses, sicknesses you can catch
(plural noun, 8)
5) Discomfort, shame, awkwardness
(noun, 13)
9) Beginning with the letter ‘h’, this disease
inflames your liver.
(noun, 9)
10) 1,000,000,000 as a word (noun, 7)
DOWN
1) Beginning with the letter ‘c’, this is an
infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the
small intestine. You mostly get it from infected
water and it makes you sick and have diarrhoea, or runny poo. (noun, 7)
2) Another word for loo, the place where you do a wee or poo (noun, 6)
4) This is the adjective to describe the disease that gives you frequent, loose,
watery poo, or ‘stools’. You can get this disease after being in contact with
someone else who has it, or you may get it from food poisoning - after
eating contaminated food or drinking water. (adjective, 10)
6) Keeping people healthy, especially to do with the water we use. This
means making sure our drinking water is clean and our waste water and
sewage (poo and wee) are properly disposed of, so we don’t pick up germs and
diseases. (noun, 10)
7) Beginning with the letter ‘t’, this is an infectious bacterial fever which causes red spots on your body and pain in your
intestines. (noun, 7)
8) Do something - about the fact many people do not have access to a toilet (noun, 6)
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