Sanitation As A Social Problem
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Not for all the places but in our country many places this is dangerous problem due to this many diseases spread and other problem also create this...
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Poor sanitation is one of the most accurate indicators of urban poverty and health problems.(1) According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 600 million urbanites live in low quality shelters or other areas plagued by overcrowding and inadequate provision of sanitation services, including potable water and safe waste disposal.(2) The number of people without access to these services is still increasing, despite general improvements in urban sanitation programs. In the last twenty years, sanitation coverage has made great strides, but it continues to be less accessible to the urban poor. According to the UNDP-World Bank Water and Sanitation Program, in 1990, 453 million urbanites “had no sanitation services,” and despite efforts to ameliorate this crisis, in 1994, this number had increased to 589 million people.(3) The challenge of sanitation intervention is to keep up with the growing population. Currently, the rate at which sanitation programs are being introduced to communities is far lower than the rate of overall population growth, resulting in more underserved people, despite these attempts to increase coverage. Further, the population growth results in overcrowding, exacerbating sanitation issues.