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Sustainable Development

The sanitation challenge

by The Daily Eye Team September 17 2014, 7:38 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 47 secs

The U.N. set the Millennium Development Goals or the MDG between 2000 and 2015. Goals 4 and 7 was to halve the number of people without access to improved water or sanitation. The goal for water is likely to be reached by the deadline but sadly not for sanitation. Unfortunately, in the quest to provide access to facilities for people, the sustainability component was missed. This miss will hopefully be rectified when the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) come into place as the next phase of the MDGs. As estimated by UNICEF and WHO, the burden of bad sanitation for India is the death of over 386,600 children due to water-borne diseases particularly diarrhoea, a crippling physical and mental stunting called enteropathy which disables children from absorbing nutrition, and finally the loss to the economy amounting to 6.50 per cent of the GDP in 2012 as per an estimate of the Water and Sanitation Programme of the World Bank.

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