UNICEF Promoting the importance of toilets and sanitation on World Water Day
More than 2 and a half billion people live without safe toilets... that's 200 million tons of untreated human waste a year. Away into the water supply, or into direct contact with hands and feet. Bacterial infection from human waste kills 1.8 million people every year - most of them children. Compromised health is bad enough... but think also about this: every young girl who wont to go to school, because there's no loo; every woman who risks physical harm to venture into the bush for privacy; every parent who misses work, caring for children made sick from poor sanitation. It's believed that every dollar invested in sanitation... results in a tenfold return in increased productivity and tourism. And good sanitation isn't expensive sanitation. It may well cost 10 billion dollars a year to achieve the millennium development goal of halving the number of people w/o basic
sanitation... but it will save 100 billion dollars in health and education costs.
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More than 2 and a half billion people live without safe toilets... that's 200 million tons of untreated human waste a year. Away into the water supply, or into direct contact with hands and feet. Bacterial infection from human waste...
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