Monday, November 5, 2007

night soil

at some point or another everyone has heard me talk about the poop problem here. read on...
ok, so clearly not everyone has time to read it. here's a smidge

Health hazard

2.6bn people in the world do not have access to a lavatory (700 million in india alone)
80% of all sickness in the world can be attributed to unsafe water and poor sanitation (i.e. the water that comes out of my kitchen sink)
400,000 Indian children die from diarrhoea every year, usually because of dirty water



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2788635.ece

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is astonishing...seriously! Thank you for sharing this article.

sara said...

and i thought the public schools were bad. seriously. that is WRONG.

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