Lack of good sanitation and clean water has lead to more deaths worldwide,
and this has caused more deaths than diseases like AIDS, breast cancer and
diabetes.
Development organization called WaterAid estimates that around
800,000 women lose their lives due to lack of toilets that are safe and lack of
also clean water.
Its believed that this is the situation that is mostly affecting
the girls who are still in school and also women. It has really affected their
health and dignity and leads to unacceptable cases of deaths.
Conditions that we may look at them as being fatal are heart diseases,
stroke and infections that affect the respiratory system. Its believed that
more that 1 billion women around the
world lack safe toilets whereas around
370 million have no where they can get
clean water. These statistics is according to Water Aid.
If we look at some statistics that were given y United Nations, it’s
believed that around 2 billion people got a chance to have clean water around 1990 and 2012 but still a group
of people estimated to be around 750 million still lack the clean water and they are leaving in abject
poverty without the basic commodity that is very important in our lives.What
mostly causes maternal and child
death is the lack of clean water and
poor sanitation in our homes. In developing countries, women usually give birth
in their homes and where they cannot
access clean water and this exposes the
babies who are born to infections that are likely to lead to death. One of the
ways of reducing child mortality is by having clean water in our homes and good
sanitation. Let there be no open sewages and also the toilets should be very
clean with good drainage.
Its also believed that lack of good sanitation and clean toilets leads to sexual violence. This is because women and girl child will go out in the night to relieve themselves and this will lead to sexual harassment and even rape. In the families where piped water cannot be afforded, the work of fetching water is left to girls and they risk being assaulted as they go to fetch water.
Its also believed that lack of good sanitation and clean toilets leads to sexual violence. This is because women and girl child will go out in the night to relieve themselves and this will lead to sexual harassment and even rape. In the families where piped water cannot be afforded, the work of fetching water is left to girls and they risk being assaulted as they go to fetch water.
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