Toilets for health

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the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in collaboration with Domestos has produced "Toilets for health", a comprehensive report on toilets and sanitation.The report, rich in infographics, provides overview of the sanitation crisis and the related burden of disease in developing countries. Report is available athttp://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/multimedia/features/toilets_for_health.pdf

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  1. good one Vishakha. Sanitation is about where people go to the bathroom and what happens to their waste. Sanitation facilities include toilets, sewers and wastewater treatment plants as well as more simple technologies such as latrines and septic tanks. Sanitation continues to remain one of the key health issues in the developing world: 2.5 billion people, over a third of the world's population, lack access to adequate sanitation facilities, perpetuating disease and high rates of child mortality. In order to address extreme poverty and global diseases, we most focus on achieving universal access to sanitation.

  2. Water and sanitation are essential for life, for health, for dignity, empowerment and prosperity. A human rights framework encompasses a broad spectrum from the rights based approach on the one side to the legal right to water at the other.  The rights based approach promotes participation in and information about people’s access to decision making forums that affect their access to water, sanitation and hygiene services.  The legal approach promotes national and international justifiable approaches that promote accountability and transparency and provide mechanisms to progressively realise increasing peoples access to water and sanitation.