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Pakistan 7th worst country in access to sanitation

LAHORE: Pakistan is the seventh worst country in terms of access to basic sanitation, as its 42 per cent of the population remains without access to basic sanitation.

A report by WaterAid says 79 million people lack a decent toilet, while 37pc have no system for wastewater disposal, which leads to spread of diseases due to contamination of water and contact with human waste.

The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), supported by Saaf Sehatmand Pakistan Campaign marked the World Toilet Day in Lahore, where they called attention to these issues.

“Despite the severity of the issue, sanitation remains a low priority area in the country. There is an immediate need to shift focus,” said PHED Secretary Muhammad Khurram Agah.

“One of the SDG targets is to ensure that everyone has access to a safely-managed household toilet by 2030. This makes sanitation central to eradicating extreme poverty,” he said.

The World Toilet Day is about an inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. In 2013, the UN General Assembly designated Nov 19 as the World Toilet Day. The day is coordinated by the UN-Water in collaboration with governments and partners.

Saaf Sehatmand Pakistan (Clean and Healthy Pakistan), is a five-year large-scale multi-layered national behaviour change campaign on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) that seeks to promote healthy living among the people by improving knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to safe drinking water, better sanitation and improved hygiene.

“Diseases spread by waste water and lack of sanitation increase the financial burden on families. This disadvantages the poorest. There is already a vast disparity in the country in terms of rural-urban access to basic sanitation facilities. If not addressed urgently, this will continue to keep many below the poverty line.

“The government takes ownership of the issue and will continue to work towards addressing this,” said Health P&D member Dr Shabana Haider.

“Improving funding and allocation of resources is at the heart of solving the sanitation and waste water problems in Pakistan. It is encouraging to see the government’s willingness and promise in this regard but more needs to be done to ensure we are able to achieve the SDG for sanitation and waste water management. Unless appropriate funding is diverted to these areas, long term, sustainable gains cannot be made,”said Siddiq Khan, country director of the WaterAid Pakistan.

“Pakistan’s efforts and commitment to improve sanitation need to be lauded. However, apart from sanitation, waste water disposal and treatment are also key in making progress towards the SDGs. For that to be achieved, we need systems that ensure that human waste is contained, transported, treated and disposed of in a safe and sustainable way, said Dr Haider.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1372293

And I thought India was disgusting.
This is a two year-old and over-exaggerated report.
 
Honestly, the ancient Romans had much better sanitation than some of these countries. So very sad.
We had civilization before u even learned to whip your a*s, darling. Do not forget that your cities were drowning in filth too, and that wasnt even that long ago. Infact big cities are still filthy.
 
Pakistan is the seventh worst country in terms of access to basic sanitation, as its 42 per cent of the population remains without access to basic sanitation.

Indeed, and we have our democratic buffoons, zadari, nawaz, bhutto, chaudhry brothers, talpurs, asfandaryar, soomros and the rest of these corrupt politicians to thank for. Pakistan Supreme court really ought to met out punishment for these traitors and criminals by having sweep the streets and clean the gutters under armed guard, for the next 25 years. Sewage treatment plants, drainage system, protecting water purity, clean parks, wild life, forests and rivers. These are responsibilities of the governments of the past. Now the responsibility falls on the present government, let's work together as citizens and government to make our country clean, safe and healthy.
 
Urbanisation has to be worst thing for many third world countries especially for India and Pakistan.
And you come to this conclusion, how?
Or did you just pull that out of ur behind?

Indeed, and we have our democratic buffoons, zadari, nawaz, bhutto, chaudhry brothers, talpurs, asfandaryar, soomros and the rest of these corrupt politicians to thank for. Pakistan Supreme court really ought to met out punishment for these traitors and criminals by having sweep the streets and clean the gutters under armed guard, for the next 25 years. Sewage treatment plants, drainage system, protecting water purity, clean parks, wild life, forests and rivers. These are responsibilities of the governments of the past. Now the responsibility falls on the present government, let's work together as citizens and government to make our country clean, safe and healthy.
No one will do anything until the people rise up and demand it. Is that going to happen?
 
And you come to this conclusion, how?
Or did you just pull that out of ur behind?


No one will do anything until the people rise up and demand it. Is that going to happen?

People don't just need to rise up, we need to rise up organized, with a game plan, with discipline and unrelenting determination. Where do you suppose such qualities are exhibited in the Muslim world? The answer is no further than your nose. When Muslims perform "Salah," they stand in "Safs," follow the "Imam," prostrate before Allah in on sychronized motion, wake up for "Fajr," and do it before going to bed, 5 times a day, every day. All these qualities are reflective of being organized, having discipline, maintaining focus and remaining resolved toward Allah. If we can accomplish such unity in Salah, then why would anything stop us from mirroring those qualities in achieving the same for Pakistan?
 
LAHORE: Pakistan is the seventh worst country in terms of access to basic sanitation, as its 42 per cent of the population remains without access to basic sanitation.

A report by WaterAid says 79 million people lack a decent toilet, while 37pc have no system for wastewater disposal, which leads to spread of diseases due to contamination of water and contact with human waste.

The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), supported by Saaf Sehatmand Pakistan Campaign marked the World Toilet Day in Lahore, where they called attention to these issues.

“Despite the severity of the issue, sanitation remains a low priority area in the country. There is an immediate need to shift focus,” said PHED Secretary Muhammad Khurram Agah.

“One of the SDG targets is to ensure that everyone has access to a safely-managed household toilet by 2030. This makes sanitation central to eradicating extreme poverty,” he said.

The World Toilet Day is about an inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. In 2013, the UN General Assembly designated Nov 19 as the World Toilet Day. The day is coordinated by the UN-Water in collaboration with governments and partners.

Saaf Sehatmand Pakistan (Clean and Healthy Pakistan), is a five-year large-scale multi-layered national behaviour change campaign on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) that seeks to promote healthy living among the people by improving knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to safe drinking water, better sanitation and improved hygiene.

“Diseases spread by waste water and lack of sanitation increase the financial burden on families. This disadvantages the poorest. There is already a vast disparity in the country in terms of rural-urban access to basic sanitation facilities. If not addressed urgently, this will continue to keep many below the poverty line.

“The government takes ownership of the issue and will continue to work towards addressing this,” said Health P&D member Dr Shabana Haider.

“Improving funding and allocation of resources is at the heart of solving the sanitation and waste water problems in Pakistan. It is encouraging to see the government’s willingness and promise in this regard but more needs to be done to ensure we are able to achieve the SDG for sanitation and waste water management. Unless appropriate funding is diverted to these areas, long term, sustainable gains cannot be made,”said Siddiq Khan, country director of the WaterAid Pakistan.

“Pakistan’s efforts and commitment to improve sanitation need to be lauded. However, apart from sanitation, waste water disposal and treatment are also key in making progress towards the SDGs. For that to be achieved, we need systems that ensure that human waste is contained, transported, treated and disposed of in a safe and sustainable way, said Dr Haider.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1372293

And I thought India was disgusting.



O Jeez... Et tu Brutus.

So far on the forum, I've noted Toilet being used a a weapon of abuse/trolling by Pakistani members over the Indian members... It's going to be interesting one going forward.
 
2-3 gens ago they still remembered gora sahib’s danda. Now thyve forgotten and back to the old ways.
What we need is a strict policy, that enforce purity. Since the people are stubborn, their a*ses should be beat in public for littering.
 
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Through a dogged campaign to build toilets and educate Bangladeshis about the dangers of open defecation, the densely populated South Asian nation has managed to reduce the number of people who defecate in the open to just 1 percent of the 166 million population, according to the government, down from 43 percent in 2003.

In this May 30, 2016 photo, Bangladeshi volunteers, working to spread awareness on sanitation, lift toilet seats in Bormi village, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh's success in sanitation, something so far unattained by India, came from a dogged campaign supported by 25 percent of the country's overall development budget. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

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What we can learn from Bangladesh to make India open defecation-free

Sourav Roy
posted on 3rd February 2016

Open defecation is a serious problem in India. The percentage of population practicing open defecation in southern Asia was 34 percent in 2015. However, without taking India in this calculation, the same number, i.e., southern Asia minus India, drastically drops down to eight percent

About 88 percent of diarrhoea-associated deaths are attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation, and insufficient hygiene. Nearly two billion people from across the world today lack access to basic sanitation, and millions die from waterborne diseases, mainly caused by faecal oral contamination and poor sanitation.

According to a 2015 report of John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, India carries the highest burden of pneumonia and diarrheoa deaths in children, accounting for one out of five child deaths due to the two diseases. Of the projected 5.9 million deaths of children (aged less than five) in 2015 across the world, pneumonia was the top killer at 16 percent, while diarrheoa came second at nine percent share globally.

According to UNICEF, 48 percent of children in India who are younger than five years of age are stunted, meaning almost half of these children suffer from chronic undernutrition during the most critical periods of growth and development in early life.

However, the journey has been different for our neighbours. According to the 2015 JMP Report, Bangladesh, Nepal and Pakistan have all achieved reductions of more than 30 percentage points since 1990 in the percentage of population practising open defecation. Bangladesh has reduced the percentage of population defecating in the open from 34 percent in 1990 to one percent in 2015. Nepal has reduced it from a shocking 88 percent in 1990 to 32 percent in 2015, while in Pakistan, the percentage has gone from 49 percent to 13 percent in the same span of 25 years.

India, on the other hand, despite projecting better growth numbers and GDP, continues to be the country with the highest number of people practicing open defecation: around 600 million people or nearly half of the population. Most of it occurs in rural areas, where the prevalence is estimated at 65 percent of the population. For a country taking pride in its military might, space probe and GDP growth, these are pretty humiliating numbers.

The road ahead for India was discussed at the International conclave ‘Beyond Just Toilets – Fast tracking an Open Defecation Free South Asia’, organised on January 10, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Representatives from India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka together dreamt of an open defecation-free South Asia. These representatives included policy and decision makers, practitioners, and programme managers from at least 30 different organisations across South Asia.

The conclave was organised jointly by Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Foundation and Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), Geneva. CLTS has played a pivotal role in improving sanitation standards in Bangladesh, and later in other Asian and African countries (with India being an exception). The concept of CLTS involves provoking shame and disgust about poor sanitation in order to bring about change. Such sustained behaviour change in mainly rural people goes a long way in reducing open defecation.

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Dr Kamal Kar addressing the conclave

CLTS was first applied by Kamal Kar in Bangladesh. In just about a decade’s time, the country has witnessed unprecedented transformation. Speaking at the conclave, Dr Kar, Chairman of the CLTS Foundation, said, “I distinctly remember the day when I was introducing CLTS through my keynote speech at the inaugural technical session of the first SACOSAN held here in Dhaka in 2003. CLTS was only two years old at the time when access to basic sanitation in Bangladesh was around 35 percent. Open defecation was rampant in rural Bangladesh.”

Over the last decade, through local community empowerment, Bangladesh has achieved a nearly open defecation-free status. Once a country with the highest rate of infant mortality in the world, Bangladesh has transformed itself radically.

The same had been the experience from Nepal, as presented by Sudha Shrestha, Acting Chief Technical Advisor/GSF Programme Manager, UN-HABITAT, Nepal. While speaking to the gathering, Sudha said that after the recent earthquake in Nepal, the affected communities started building up their toilets first and then their houses. An impact of positive behaviour change was also seen when there were very few diarrhoea cases reported after the earthquake.

These examples in drastically reducing child mortality and human drudgery in such a short time can be emulated by India too. According to Sujoy Majumdar of UNICEF India, the Swachh Bharat Mission has the potential to imitate the success story of Bangladesh. Effort is being made to intensely involve and engage local government, NGOs and civil society organisations to create more public awareness, which is also the cornerstone of the success in Bangladesh.

In India, despite efforts being in place, the results are nowhere in sight. Figures from the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation show that since 1986, India has spent over $3 billion on constructing toilets across the country, but positive results are still not visible. An all-India survey conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has also revealed that just 46 percent of the 95 lakh toilets built in rural India are being used, while the figure is barely 50 percent even in urban areas.

While appreciating Bangladesh’s achievements in eliminating open defecation, all participants in the conclave recognised that change has been possible mainly because of their focus on collective behaviour change rather than on construction of toilets. Anowarul Haq, Director, Extreme Rural Poverty Program, CARE, Bangladesh focussed on sanitation being a trigger to wider development benefits like livelihoods, food security, eliminating hunger, primary education, inequality, and health. While India seems to have joined the bandwagon, the road ahead will be a tightrope walk.
 
This report is primarily talking about Lahore where we own properties so often visit and therefore I fail to understand the truth in that report. 100% of Lahore was urbanized according to 2017 Census so may be on my next trip I will explore few unfamiliar areas to see what Westerners see.
 
O Jeez... Et tu Brutus.

So far on the forum, I've noted Toilet being used a a weapon of abuse/trolling by Pakistani members over the Indian members... It's going to be interesting one going forward.

as per world bank data in 2015 64% Pakistanis were with proper sanitation facility.

South Asian countries as per world bank from 1990 and 2015 improvement.

Afghanistan - -- - 32
Bangladesh - 34 - 61
Bhutan - 19 - 50
China - 48 - 77
India - 17 - 40
Nepal - 5 - 46
Pakistan - 24 - 64
Sri Lanka - 71 - 95

South Asia - 20 - 45

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.ACSN
 
this i never really understand about Pakistani people , most of them consider themselves to be strictly religious but neglect the clean environment , streets and water etc despite knowing that its half of their imaan (faith) to be clean and work or live in a clean place .. but oh man a road trip in Karachi , DAMN these filthy people sit and work , and throw garbage at the same place, spit paan and tambako , naswaar and all sort of disgusting stuff , people literally peeing on streets where ever they find a wall . Why should we call ourselves Religious ? Pakistan is nowhere close to a Islamic country .

Well... if you know the function of religion that God gives to humanity, is to teach us.

Basically we are students.

We are still learning.

And it doesn't mean everyone have the same degree of understanding as this is not a school, we have freedom whatever when we want to learn or even never.
 

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