foundation is spending about $80 million a year on water, sanitation
and hygiene issues, areas where it thinks it can make a marked
difference in people's lives.
The $370 million in total it has committed to that area so far is still only a small slice of global funding for health, development and education provided by the foundation, which has handed out, or is committed to, more than $26 billion in grants since Gates started his philanthropic endeavors in 1994.