6 In 10 Africans Remain Without Access To Proper Toilet: Poor Sanitation Threatens Public Health

Sixty-two percent of Africans do not have access to an improved sanitation facility — a proper toilet — which separates human waste from human contact, according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. A global report will be released later this year, however, preliminary data on the situation in Africa was released today as part of World Water Day 2008.

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Filed under: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture on April 3rd, 2008