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How to solve the world's sanitation problemWe go to the toilet about six to eight times a day. We cannot imagine not hav...
26/06/2018

How to solve the world's sanitation problem

We go to the toilet about six to eight times a day. We cannot imagine not having a toilet when we need to use one.

Yet despite all the progress in human development, 2.6 billion people - about 40% of mankind - still do not have access to proper sanitation.
Each year, 1.5 million children under the age of five die of diarrhea caused by unsanitary conditions and poor hygiene.
When open defecation is the common practice, the flies spread diseases from the waste to the food.
Sanitation and hygiene are the cheapest and most effective preventive medicines for the poor.

Lack of attention

Yet this is a Millennium Development Goal that has failed miserably. Why?
The reason is simple: We simply do not talk about it enough to find effective solutions on a global scale.
Most of the time, sanitation sits in the shadow of her more glamorous sister, water.
They call sanitation - waste water, black water, grey water, yellow water, etc - anything but sanitation.
Charity cannot solve such a massive problem. We need to transform the world toilet crisis into a great business opportunity.
When development banks and governments think of sanitation, they think of urban sewerage pipe systems that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
But sewerage water pipes often end up in the river, sea or lakes, and pollute the water sources.

Socio-economic impact

Adolescent girls drop out of school when they menstruate, because without toilets at school, it is impossible to change sanitary napkins.
Missing school for one week each month often causes them to drop out of school altogether. Without education, the poverty cycle continues.
The poor who have been used to open defecation also may not think they need a toilet.
In this way, demand is muted. Supply is non-existent. Market is fragmented.
How shall we solve a problem that people do not want to talk about?
The World Toilet Organization was founded in 2001 with its acronym WTO.
With their unique mix of serious facts and humor, they took the global media by storm and shocked the world into realization of such a massive global sanitation crisis.
As media gave legitimacy to the subject, politicians became advocates for proper sanitation to win popularity.
The academia, with its publish-or-perish culture contributed by publishing their researches on technologies and findings. Small sanitation-related NGOs started to get attention for their cause.
Their founding day, 19 November, became World Toilet Day and this is celebrated by an ever-increasing number of people each year.

Google also showed 16 million mentions of World Toilet Day on the web search.

We invite interested parties,groups, private and government agencies and individuals to post comments and contribute to this vitally important cause, "SANITATION." in our country PNG.

I Commend Minister Richard Maru to introduce a bill in Parliament session on SanitationFor the first time in our PNG Pol...
29/05/2018

I Commend Minister Richard Maru to introduce a bill in Parliament session on Sanitation

For the first time in our PNG Politics, a member of Parliament and a minister who holds a high profile ministry in Government to scoop so low to carry to Parliament a bill to be tabled and make it a law for Sanitation.

Rt. Hon member for Yangoru Sausia and Minister for Planning and Monitoring who took this historical move to legislate one of the most basic of all services, the sanitation....
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For the first time in our PNG Politics, a member of Parliament and a minister who holds a high profile ministry in Gover...
28/05/2018

For the first time in our PNG Politics, a member of Parliament and a minister who holds a high profile ministry in Government to scoop so low to carry to Parliament a bill to be tabled and make it a law for Sanitation.

Rt. Hon member for Yangoru Sausia and Minister for Planning and Monitoring who took this historical move to legislate one of the most basic of all services, the sanitation.

We have been promoting this very own services (sanitation) for the past ten years or so. Mr Minister, we salute you for taking this move in yesterdays National Paper page 39 article.

Part 2 of what you should know about SanitationStrategies to Achieve Success in SanitationSanitation is a complex topic,...
28/05/2018

Part 2 of what you should know about Sanitation

Strategies to Achieve Success in Sanitation

Sanitation is a complex topic, with links to health and to social and economic development. It affects many but is championed by few. From our analysis of the situation, we believe that three major strategies could achieve success in sanitation.
The most important of these strategies is political leadership, which is manifested by establishing clear institutional responsibility and specific budget lines for sanitation, and by ensuring that public sector agencies working in health, in water resources, and in utility services work together better. The regional sanitation conference declarations released during the International Year of Sanitation, in which many government ministers were personally involved, were an important step forward. In addition, the biennial global reports on sanitation and drinking water published by the World Health Organization and UNICEF contribute towards political leadership and aid effectiveness by publishing the sanitation work of both developing country governments and support agencies.

The second strategy is the shift from centralized supply-led infrastructure provision to decentralized, people-centered demand creation coupled with support to service providers to meet that demand. This strategy is transforming sanitation from a minor grant-based development sector into a major area of human economic activity and inherently addresses the problem of affordability, since people install whatever sanitation systems they can afford and subsequently upgrade them as economic circumstances permit.

The final strategy is the full involvement of the health sector in sanitation. The health sector has a powerful motivation for improving sanitation, and much strength to contribute to achieving this goal. The Declaration of Alma Ata in 1978 emphasized the importance of primary health care and included “an adequate supply of safe water and basic sanitation” as one of its eight key elements . Many years have passed since this Declaration, and the body of evidence about sanitation has increased substantially. The health sector now needs to reassert its commitment and leadership to help achieve a world in which everybody has access to adequate sanitation.

• 2.6 billion people in the world lack adequate sanitation—the safe disposal of human excreta. Lack of sanitation contri...
23/05/2018

• 2.6 billion people in the world lack adequate sanitation—the safe disposal of human excreta. Lack of sanitation contributes to about 10% of the global disease burden, causing mainly diarrhoeal diseases.
• Improved sanitation has significant impacts not only on health, but on social and economic development, particularly in developing countries.
• The health sector has a strong role to play in improving sanitation in developing countries through policy development and the implementation of sanitation programs.

Adequate sanitation, together with good hygiene and safe water, are fundamental to good health and to social and economic development.

That is why, in 2008, the Prime Minister of India quoted Mahatma Gandhi who said in 1923, “sanitation is more important than independence”

Improvements in one or more of these three components of good health can substantially reduce the rates of morbidity and the severity of various diseases and improve the quality of life of huge numbers of people, particularly children, in developing countries

The diseases associated with poor sanitation are particularly correlated with poverty and infancy and alone account for about 10% of the global burden of disease. At any given time close to half of the urban populations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America have a disease associated with poor sanitation, hygiene, and water

In addition to its impact on health, improved sanitation generates both social and economic benefits. Householders understand these wider benefits but scientists have only recently begun to study individuals' motivations for improving sanitation and changing sanitation behavior.

While the main goal of agencies' sanitation programming is to improve health, householders rarely adopt and use toilets for health-related reasons. Instead, the main motivations for sanitation adoption and use include the desire for privacy and to avoid embarrassment, wanting to be modern, the desire for convenience and to avoid the discomforts or dangers of the bush (e.g., snakes, pests, rain), and wanting social acceptance or status . Furthermore, for women, the provision of household sanitation reduces the risk of r**e and/or attack experienced when going to public latrines or the bush to defecate, and for girls, the provision of school sanitation facilities means that they are less likely to miss school by staying at home during menstruation.

23/06/2017

Politicians past, present and intending ones have forgotten to use water and sanitation as a very very powerful platform tool to enter politics. "THE" backbone of any developing and aspiring nation of the world. Todays politicians fail to appreciate a very important fact that water and sanitation is the key to well being of its citizens. Lack of quality water and sanitation produces weak societies in turn affects peoples output performances.

28/02/2017

Public toilets are places where one is obliged to ease oneself in unfamiliar surroundings among the strangers of the same s*x

Can a city lacking basic public amenities be considered livable? Shouldn’t public toilets be as much a part of our urban landscape as streetlights and curb cuts? Will people abandon their cars for public transit if there are no places “to go” along the route? Don’t all people need places where they can meet a universal physiological need?

Providing basic amenities for people in public places is challenging work. It takes time and individuals with a good mix of skills, some of which you can acquire by using these tools.

Our interest in meeting unmet toilet needs makes us special. Our initiative may be motivated by any of a number of situations. Perhaps you care for a tot or an elder and arrange your outings around toilet availability. Perhaps you are the mayor of a town whose residents are up in arms about public toilet closures due to budget constraints. Perhaps you work in the visitor center for your large city and are tired of complaints from international visitors about the lack of public toilets. Perhaps you want to join the Wednesday night softball league but the distance to the nearest restroom is embarrassingly far. Perhaps you are a transportation planner who realizes that some people won’t walk or take transit unless there are restrooms along the route.

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