Copyright © 2010 SANIPLAN

HOW BIG IS THIS SANITATION PROBLEM?

Around the globe, on average,
70,000+ persons  defecate
EVERY SECOND of every day.

Of these, 28,000+ (or 40%) do not have
improved sanitation facilities, and
therefore are at much greater risk
of disease transmission from and to others.

Instead, EVERY SECOND,
these 28,000 must use unimproved methods
of sanitation such as buckets; toilets hanging
openly over water sources;
poorly-constructed pit latrines
(no slab or open pit); flushing
excreta into street, yard, plot, open
sewer, ditch, or drainage way; or
open defecation
(squat and drop, or wrap and throw).

IT IS TIME TO PUT AN END TO SUCH
"2nd-class  SHITIZENSHIP"
and to ELIMINATE
THIS STINKING SITUATION!

-- THE PUBLIC'S HEALTH demands: FIRST things FIRST --

A CITY WITHOUT SANITATION IS A HELL ON EARTH:
A place where it is a cruel joke to talk about the public's health.
People can learn to put up with almost anything,
but why should they have to?

2008 was the United Nations
"International Year of Sanitation."
For the 2.6 billion persons in the world without proper means
to dispose of their daily human wastes,
in 2009 and beyond, what difference will this make?

PLEASE VIEW THE FOLLOWING SLIDE SHOWS (in PDF format) WHICH COME AT
THIS QUESTION FROM DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW:


What is it about Sanitation? Conventional and Ecological Sanitation compared

OBSERVATION FOR THE MOMENT, TO STRIKE A BLOW FOR ECOLOGICAL SANITATION: Since Mother Nature in her wisdom equipped all humans and other mammals with two separate, specialized organ systems through which to dispose of our bodily wastes (urine and feces), perhaps she was telling us something about how we should further dispose of those wastes once they have left our bodies.


Sustainable Sanitation for Cities - SuSanA Planning for Sustainable Sanitation - SuSanA SuSanA Partners

----- To learn about the new GLOBAL SANITATION FUND, press right here.


QUESTION FOR THE MOMENT: With the creation in 2008 of the Global Sanitation Fund, what will happen with the well-acknowledged need to address all sanitation problems on the local level, both rurally and in peri-urban and urban settings?


----- To download the latest (October 2008) definitive COMPENDIUM OF SANITATION SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES, press right here.
[PLEASE NOTE: This is a large file and make take longer to download.]

----- To download an earlier draft summary presentation about the Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies,
press right here.




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