It’s World Toilet Day. Why do so many people lack adequate sanitation facilities?
Today we celebrate World Toilet Day to promote awareness about the global sanitation crisis. Toilets have been around for more than 5,000 years, but many people around the world still do not have one.
No. 6 on the list of U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is to achieve universal access to adequate sanitation and end the practice of open defecation by 2030, recognizing the dangers of waterborne disease. But 61 percent of the global population still lacked safely managed sanitation services in 2015. Why has progress toward this goal been so hard to achieve?
Rural Africa and South Asia are where the sanitation problems are concentrated — and India has one of the worst sanitation records.… Seguir leyendo »