An estimated 2.6 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation globally, WHO says. (Estimated from the data of 2008 and published in 2010)
Without the access (to adequate sanitation, hereafter omitted), what we do to respond the nature calls is to perform bodily functions in the open air, or whatnot. (There are some other ways like using plastic bag and throwing it out of window, which is called a flying toilet seen in Kenyan slums.)
The scattered excreta, or millions of viruses and bacteria and thousands of parasite cysts and hundreds of parasite eggs in a cluster, goes from feet to hands to utensils to drinking water to your mouth with flies and other disease-carrying agents worsening the situation. In short, the pathogens derived from faecal exposure are all around and causes diseases. Especially, diarrhoea diseases. It is more fatal than AIDS or Malaria matters - 1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases including cholera; 90% are children under 5, mostly in developing countries and 88% of diarrhoeal disease is attributed to unsafe water supply, inadequate sanitation and hygiene like contaminated drinking water.
Taking a close look at it once again, the nations are ranked depending on the population WITHOUT the access instead of the total population.
There is a story from Kenyan slum for example - a pit latrine is supposed to be used by a group of 30 people but only some men of power keep it from the rest. Sometimes it is located too far from the group’s living space. Sometimes a brand-new toilet the UN or Japan or some NGO/NPO contributes is too clean.. cleaner than their house or anything in their sights and not being used to poop over. (The solution is not only building toilets or beefing up sewage systems.) It is too huge number to scrutinise every single case for now? , which brings me the vagary it possibly being pegged at fewer.
Last month (September, 2011), they reported that India now hit its 58% after working on the problem for a few years (It was estimated as 56% last year.) even though the parameter has become larger.
I would like you to get your attention to target 7.c. - access to sanitation, or toilets - in the graph above. Even comparing to safe water access that world know that the situation is severe in developing countries and we need to work on more, it is still longer way to go for sanitation matters. It means that we have an indication, set goals, and monitoring people, and yet we have not had a proudly announced progress yet in this field. Not yet. Unless you call 67/200 close enough to have come. Isn't it unbearable to leave as this is?
What is the problem with this? Why still almost half of this world squat in the open air?
One of the possible reasons is population growth (in my humble analysis again 8p). Put your eyes on the parameter in the table now.
2.6 billion out of.. out of... 6.6 billion... 6.6 billion! The UN and media are lately reporting we are reaching 7 billion in the end of this month loudly. 7 billion in a week? 7,000,000,000 in a few days!!!!!!!!! (°△°)
May 3rd this year, it is when the United Nations Population Division put 2010 revision on view unbelievably announcing that the projections produces a world population in 2050 of 9.31 billion, that is 156million larger than the last revision of 2008. At the turn of the century, in this case, the world will have 10.1 billion people, and on October 31 this year, we will have its seven billionth person.
Now that we have
at this very moment.
{ By the way, Visit the website now to understand more; 7 Billion Actions. by UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) On that page, people behind the number, or we, share the stories. (I submitted my story there too! :D) }
Taking the India's example, apparently, world’s population growth is not being accompanied by even what is needed. That moreover proves the increase in improved-sanitation-access unserved population 2005-2015 in Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Asia, and Oceania even with MDGs 7.c. projects going on.
Where is this growth aiming toward then?
Aforementioned 2010 revision says that India’s is projected to peak at 1.718 billion in 2060, after which it will decline. The share in world's population will peak in 2030, after which it will decline too, and the growth from that time on will be fuelled by Africa. (China at its peak in 2025 will have 1.395 billion people and by the end of the century, India will have twice as many people as China does.)
On the other hand, my country known as the land of sun RISING has been making a shockingly huge decline on population. Far from “ageing society“ with 7-14% of the 65+-year-old population, “aged society” with 14-21%, or “hyper-aged society with 21-%, we have reached 23.1%. Incidentally, by 2050, it is expected to be over 40% that is with of the 65+-year-old population, or more than 25% of the population to be at least 85 year-old by 2030, which is making us worry about the national pension and nursing care matters because population of supportive age are declining and they have less and less number of lifetime fertility. Living in Japan, I get confused because population growth simply seems affirmative. Japan's case brings some confusion here in this entry but in both ways, family planning plays crucial role.
Take Niger back, for example.
Niger is in west Africa, ranked in the 10th in the table above. While women across much of the world are having fewer children, the case is far slower than our expectation in this nation. (Hereafter quoted from the myth of 9 billion by Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell) The rate of population growth exceeds economic growth too. Twenty percent of women there have 10 or more children and only one in 1,000 women completes secondary school. Already, one-third children in Niger are malnourished, and global warming will further undermine agricultural output in the desertifying Sahel. Unfortunately.. or not, even if the current birth rate is halved by 2050, the population will still explode -- from 14 million today to 53 million by 2050. If the birth rate continues at current levels, the population could reach a totally unsustainable 80 million. Unless there is an immediate commitment to family planning, the scale of human suffering over the next three decades in the Sahel could equal or exceed that caused by HIV/AIDS in the past 30 years.
In this nation, four in five, 80% of total population defecate in the open air. More accurately, 79% of total population perform open defecation in 2010, which is great improvement, WHO sang the eulogies, because it was 84% in 1990. My first impression was negative actually, isn't yours too now? Parameter grows, rates declines, eh eh? Nah, not always. The populous great India confirms this outrageous. Considering ironic fact that having less children than in the past could mean that fewer of them are dying, someone working on this problem in this nation unobtrusively made this great success step by step.
Another possible reason in my (once again :p) humble analysis is unmentionable-ness. We don't talk about this loudly but everyone does. Everyone poops. Imagine what if you had no toilet in your life. Stay tuned if this interests you. :)
Without the access (to adequate sanitation, hereafter omitted), what we do to respond the nature calls is to perform bodily functions in the open air, or whatnot. (There are some other ways like using plastic bag and throwing it out of window, which is called a flying toilet seen in Kenyan slums.)
The scattered excreta, or millions of viruses and bacteria and thousands of parasite cysts and hundreds of parasite eggs in a cluster, goes from feet to hands to utensils to drinking water to your mouth with flies and other disease-carrying agents worsening the situation. In short, the pathogens derived from faecal exposure are all around and causes diseases. Especially, diarrhoea diseases. It is more fatal than AIDS or Malaria matters - 1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoeal diseases including cholera; 90% are children under 5, mostly in developing countries and 88% of diarrhoeal disease is attributed to unsafe water supply, inadequate sanitation and hygiene like contaminated drinking water.
Taking a close look at it once again, the nations are ranked depending on the population WITHOUT the access instead of the total population.
Thereat, nations like Eritrea with 85%, Sierra Leone where life was once the shortest in the world with 86%, Madagascar with 88%, and Chad with 92% population without the access are not mentioned.
It is not the number that counts but the outcomes of it. ..when I think of every single friend in/from those countries. However, there is a matter that it is possibly pegged at fewer in my humble analysis. I know it is already huge number though. :(
There is a story from Kenyan slum for example - a pit latrine is supposed to be used by a group of 30 people but only some men of power keep it from the rest. Sometimes it is located too far from the group’s living space. Sometimes a brand-new toilet the UN or Japan or some NGO/NPO contributes is too clean.. cleaner than their house or anything in their sights and not being used to poop over. (The solution is not only building toilets or beefing up sewage systems.) It is too huge number to scrutinise every single case for now? , which brings me the vagary it possibly being pegged at fewer.
Last month (September, 2011), they reported that India now hit its 58% after working on the problem for a few years (It was estimated as 56% last year.) even though the parameter has become larger.
Ever wondered how we have been working on to the problems, by the way?
It is with an indicator; the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs.
As for the toilet matters, MDGs target 7.c. declares “Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation” and more minutely, 7.9. announces it is about “proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility”.
MDGs is global/international development goals to be achieved by 2015 originated with earlier international development targets from the Millennium Summit in 2000.
Roughly it has 8 goals;
It is with an indicator; the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs.
As for the toilet matters, MDGs target 7.c. declares “Reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation” and more minutely, 7.9. announces it is about “proportion of population using an improved sanitation facility”.
MDGs is global/international development goals to be achieved by 2015 originated with earlier international development targets from the Millennium Summit in 2000.
Roughly it has 8 goals;
- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a Global Partnership for Development
How close we have come to the goals so far? Last June, they published the global monitoring report of 2011 to show it;
I would like you to get your attention to target 7.c. - access to sanitation, or toilets - in the graph above. Even comparing to safe water access that world know that the situation is severe in developing countries and we need to work on more, it is still longer way to go for sanitation matters. It means that we have an indication, set goals, and monitoring people, and yet we have not had a proudly announced progress yet in this field. Not yet. Unless you call 67/200 close enough to have come. Isn't it unbearable to leave as this is?
What is the problem with this? Why still almost half of this world squat in the open air?
One of the possible reasons is population growth (in my humble analysis again 8p). Put your eyes on the parameter in the table now.
2.6 billion out of.. out of... 6.6 billion... 6.6 billion! The UN and media are lately reporting we are reaching 7 billion in the end of this month loudly. 7 billion in a week? 7,000,000,000 in a few days!!!!!!!!! (°△°)
May 3rd this year, it is when the United Nations Population Division put 2010 revision on view unbelievably announcing that the projections produces a world population in 2050 of 9.31 billion, that is 156million larger than the last revision of 2008. At the turn of the century, in this case, the world will have 10.1 billion people, and on October 31 this year, we will have its seven billionth person.
Now that we have
at this very moment.
{ By the way, Visit the website now to understand more; 7 Billion Actions. by UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) On that page, people behind the number, or we, share the stories. (I submitted my story there too! :D) }
Taking the India's example, apparently, world’s population growth is not being accompanied by even what is needed. That moreover proves the increase in improved-sanitation-access unserved population 2005-2015 in Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Asia, and Oceania even with MDGs 7.c. projects going on.
Where is this growth aiming toward then?
Aforementioned 2010 revision says that India’s is projected to peak at 1.718 billion in 2060, after which it will decline. The share in world's population will peak in 2030, after which it will decline too, and the growth from that time on will be fuelled by Africa. (China at its peak in 2025 will have 1.395 billion people and by the end of the century, India will have twice as many people as China does.)
On the other hand, my country known as the land of sun RISING has been making a shockingly huge decline on population. Far from “ageing society“ with 7-14% of the 65+-year-old population, “aged society” with 14-21%, or “hyper-aged society with 21-%, we have reached 23.1%. Incidentally, by 2050, it is expected to be over 40% that is with of the 65+-year-old population, or more than 25% of the population to be at least 85 year-old by 2030, which is making us worry about the national pension and nursing care matters because population of supportive age are declining and they have less and less number of lifetime fertility. Living in Japan, I get confused because population growth simply seems affirmative. Japan's case brings some confusion here in this entry but in both ways, family planning plays crucial role.
Take Niger back, for example.
Niger is in west Africa, ranked in the 10th in the table above. While women across much of the world are having fewer children, the case is far slower than our expectation in this nation. (Hereafter quoted from the myth of 9 billion by Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell) The rate of population growth exceeds economic growth too. Twenty percent of women there have 10 or more children and only one in 1,000 women completes secondary school. Already, one-third children in Niger are malnourished, and global warming will further undermine agricultural output in the desertifying Sahel. Unfortunately.. or not, even if the current birth rate is halved by 2050, the population will still explode -- from 14 million today to 53 million by 2050. If the birth rate continues at current levels, the population could reach a totally unsustainable 80 million. Unless there is an immediate commitment to family planning, the scale of human suffering over the next three decades in the Sahel could equal or exceed that caused by HIV/AIDS in the past 30 years.
In this nation, four in five, 80% of total population defecate in the open air. More accurately, 79% of total population perform open defecation in 2010, which is great improvement, WHO sang the eulogies, because it was 84% in 1990. My first impression was negative actually, isn't yours too now? Parameter grows, rates declines, eh eh? Nah, not always. The populous great India confirms this outrageous. Considering ironic fact that having less children than in the past could mean that fewer of them are dying, someone working on this problem in this nation unobtrusively made this great success step by step.
Another possible reason in my (once again :p) humble analysis is unmentionable-ness. We don't talk about this loudly but everyone does. Everyone poops. Imagine what if you had no toilet in your life. Stay tuned if this interests you. :)
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