Question

We should not defecate in the open. It is possible to have safe disposal of excreta by low cost methods

answers:

explain: ​

Answer 1

Answer:

no

Explanation:

Safe disposal of excreta, so that it does not contaminate the environment,

water, food or hands, is essential for ensuring a healthy environment and for

protecting personal health. This can be accomplished in many ways, some

requiring water, others requiring little or none. Regardless of method, the

safe disposal of human faeces is one of the principal ways of breaking the

faecal–oral disease transmission cycle. Sanitation is therefore a critical barrier

to disease transmission.

Plans for locating sanitation facilities, and for treating and removing

waste, must consider cultural issues, particularly as sanitation is usually

focused on the household. Excreta disposal may be a difficult subject for a

community to discuss: it may be taboo, or people may not like to discuss

issues they regard as personal and unclean. In some cases, people may feel

that sanitation facilities are not appropriate for children, or that children’s

faeces are not harmful. In others, separate facilities may be required for men

and women, and it may be necessary to locate the facilities so that no one can

be seen entering the latrine building. If the disposal facilities smell and are a

breeding ground for flies, people may not use them.

Health improvement comes from the proper use of sanitation facilities, not

simply their physical presence, and they may be abandoned if the level of

service does not meet the social and cultural needs of community members

at an affordable cost, as shown in Figure 4.1. Within a community, several

different sanitation options may be required, with varying levels of conveni-

ence and cost (sometimes called a sanitation ladder). The advantage of this

approach is that it allows households to progressively upgrade sanitation

facilities over time.