Sanitation the key to progress in the developing world
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Sanitation, hygiene, water access, water equity, education... all key elements in lifting developing countries out of poverty and disease and bringing hope to women and girls to provide them with a future. In the 21st century, it is shameful this is still a crisis. With all of our resources millions of people still have no access to dignity or to a clean water source.
This has been a true failure of humanity.
We should be taking better care of our planet, and each other.
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Firstly, I never stated that sanitation "alone" is the key to progress, but it is surely the start of it, and on many levels, especially regarding women. And it is also a failure of countries to provide adequate facilities as well as adequate education. And this commentary was not written from a 'RW" or "liberal" perspective. I don't fall into those traps. This is a human issue, and yes, while population is also a factor it too is not the only one.
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However much one's heart goes out to those suffering from lack of sanitation, and it's handmaidens of ignorance and poverty, sanitation itself is not the key to "progress."
Although great strides have been made in empowering men and women to take control of their own reproduction, the sheer horror of these conditions are a direct result of geometrically increasing numbers, not a moral failure on the part of other nations to provide toilets.
Right-wing anti-birth control policies resulted in quantifiably more death and destruction on the Africa continent in the past several years.
"Liberal" projects to catch up with exploding populations by providing sanitation are necessary in the short term, and not wrong in themselves unless they fail to recognize that they are belatedly treating the symptom and not the cause. - 1 year ago
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http://current.com/news/91786807_women-in-indian-villages-bring-sanitation-and-h...
Women are bringing sanitation and hope to some villages in Western India. This is a problem of political corruption and collusion as much as it is also a problem of too much money being spent on building dams, and not enough if any going to infrastructure.
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http://current.com/green/92338953_david-kuria-sanitation-and-toilet-entrepreneur...
Here is one story of progress from Kenya.
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http://current.com/shows/vanguard/92471289_how-to-solve-the-worlds-toilet-crisis...
And thank you to Current for covering this issue on Vanguard.
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Look for more entries and discussions on this crisis in the Water Is Life Group:
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