A World Bank program in a poor nation aimed to provide clean water access to impoverished people in remote areas. In the past 10 years, the availability of clean water has increased due to the program, but half the population in rural areas still lacks access to clean water. Thus, the program is a failure.
Which of the following information, if added to the above passage, would strengthen its conclusion?
A)The World Bank has a successful track record of implementing programs increasing electricity access, but not for clean water.
B)Before the program began, more than half of people in rural areas in the country had clean water access.
C)Most people who lack clean water access also lack many other necessities, such as adequate food supplies.
D)Before the program began, less than half of people in rural areas in the country had clean water access.
E)In the decade since the program began, severe drought prevented the program from being successful in some very remote areas.

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If before the program began, more than half of the people in rural areas in the country had clean water access, this would show that fewer people had access to clean water after the program than before, and would strengthen the conclusion that the program was a failure.

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