Washington
10 February 2009
Around 10 million rural Cambodians live without proper sanitation and toilets, a major drain of money and resources, a World Bank team has found.
“Based on an economic analysis of sanitation, there’s an annual loss of $190 million, for just a health problem,” Kov Phyrum, a water supply and sanitation analyst for the World Bank said Monday.
Without access to clean water and other sanitation, money is wasted, he said.
“If people urinate and defecate on the ground outside, when the rain comes it drains into water resources, like the ponds, rivers and lakes,” he said, as a guest on “Hello VOA.” That in turn leads to disease, “and if people drink the water, they will become sick with diarrhea and waste a lot of time and money and services.”
Kov Phyrum recommended people use rain water when possible and also wash their hands often to prevent disease.
“Based on an economic analysis of sanitation, there’s an annual loss of $190 million, for just a health problem,” Kov Phyrum, a water supply and sanitation analyst for the World Bank said Monday.
Without access to clean water and other sanitation, money is wasted, he said.
“If people urinate and defecate on the ground outside, when the rain comes it drains into water resources, like the ponds, rivers and lakes,” he said, as a guest on “Hello VOA.” That in turn leads to disease, “and if people drink the water, they will become sick with diarrhea and waste a lot of time and money and services.”
Kov Phyrum recommended people use rain water when possible and also wash their hands often to prevent disease.
2 comments:
cORRUPTION!!!! CORUPPTION!!!!
perhaps it is a wake up call to improve the standard of living for all khmer people in cambodia! these are actually simple problem that needs simple solution as clean water, education for hygiene, hand-washing, proper use of toilet, etc... these are preventable diseases that may be caused from lack of sanatation that we see in a more developed nation on the planet; and of course, these lack of can be corrected and improved in cambodia as well as anywhere on the planet. why are we waiting for so long? please help to correct this insufficiency. this is people's daily life. thank you.
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