UN seeks to end toilet ‘taboo’
Published on by sahana rathore, Unicef - Co-ordinator in Technology
World Water Day: UN seeks to end toilet ‘taboo'
Talking about toilet is still a taboo in my country. Is the situation same in your countries too? What the community workers are doing to address this issue? As we know on World Water Day: UN seeks to end toilet ‘taboo'...read the news http://dawn.com/2013/03/22/un-seeks-to-end-toilet-taboo/
and feedback are appreciated from the community workers addressing this issue.
Taxonomy
- Public Health
- Composting Toilet
- Ecological Sanitation
- Sludge Management
- Policy
- Governance
- Sanitation
- Governance & Planning
- Water Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH)
4 Answers
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According to various estimations there are approximately 2,6 - 3 billion people living without proper sanitation. These people have to decide on daily bases how to organize defecation without feeling ashamed, feel of fear or direct health problems due to lack of sanitation. Some relieve themselves during the night time while others hide in the bushes for defecation. Providing that people are not accessible to proper toilets, they need to rely on solutions that are neither good for them or the communities they live in. Due to inadequate water supply, sewerage systems and lack of sanitation millions of people face death annually. I must say, in developing countries we have problem of infrastructure, it is not the culture..When we work in communist they never find toilet as a shock, intact every he and she want to have them. But you know what, in the country when people have fight for food on day to day basis, they don't consider toilet a big ISSUe for survival.
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I still dont understand why it is considered as cultural shock for people from developing countries when we talk about toilets?? can anyone explain me about it...i am working these days in Bangaladesh, and there also the same thins are coming up, Toilet is a taboo...:(
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Great efforts by UN indeed!. there is need to talk about toilets and all other forms of sanitation facilities for proper acceptability and management by community
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@ Sahana, UN, Unicef are doing great work.This toilet taboo is killing thousands of kids every year. Governments are failing to fund projects to improve access to toilets and other sanitation services in poor countries. I still don't understand why its taboo to talk about shit in the era of modernization. I feel sad for poor kids having no access to toilets and drinking smelly water.