Communities have Responsibilities

That sanitation has implications for the environment underscores its importance; that importance was acknowledged globally by making it one of the conditions for the attainment of Millennium Development Goal 7. It is appropriate that the world focuses on sanitation, for according to the Report, “[a]lmost a quarter of the developing world’s population live without any form of sanitation”. It continues: “An additional 15 per cent use sanitation facilities that do not ensure hygienic separation of human waste from human contact” (Goal 7).

pic1: Too comfortable with waste

The world community has an objective: “Halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation” (Goal 7).

pic 2: Dumping sites are started indiscriminately

                     Pic3: Waste is dumped without regard for implications