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HOW BIG IS THIS SANITATION PROBLEM?

Around the globe,
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).

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

2008 has been named by the United Nations as
"The International Year of Sanitation."
For the 2.6 billion persons in the world without proper means
to dispose of their daily human wastes,
what difference will this make?

QUESTION FOR THE MOMENT: With the creation this year 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?

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


What is is about Sanitation? Conventional and Ecological Sanitation compared The Acronym Parade - UNSCGAB, SuSanA, etc.


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