PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) – While Cambodia is working hard to improve the access to safe water, the issue remains its challenge, a statement from UN office in the country said Tuesday.
"Some 85 percent of the population having access to safe water, among which 76 percent in urban areas," the statement said.
However, it said the situation is not as good for those living in urban slums where they have difficult access to state supplied water.
Furthermore, some 90 percent of population in the country have access to sanitation and 81 percent have toilets, according to the UN office in Cambodia.
However, only 30 percent of families in poor settlements have access to indoor toilets and human waste is mostly discharged in open spaces, posting health hazard and contributing to the degradation of local environment.
The statement is released on the day as the world observes World Water Day, which is held on annual basis since 1993 to bring global attention to the importance of water and sanitation.
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Electricity is ok right now, but clean waters/running waters are the big problems in cambodia,...especially in the rural area!..People cont. dumping ton ton of trashes into Sangker river? I saw a big big pile of trashes in 'Phasr DounTiev, Battambang' on Sangker River!? People eating fishes, drinking from the River?? I hope the Govts do something about this TRASH??
Government officials of Battambang busy shopping for diamonds jewlery for their mistress...
Everytime PM Hun Sen plans to visit the Province-Battambang, this governor scramble, running up and down like chicken with the head cut off, telling workers to work overtime at night to finish up the road/street in the city, but if Hun Sen not coming...He's just sitting his fat lazy ass@#, ignore and do nothing, beside shopping for his mistress....instead?
All of them are like that...When they heard that PM Hun Sen is coming their province, they scarmble, running around like crazy! They even shit in their pants..? They don't do their fucken jobs, if Hun Sen don't come...All Govts officials, just sitting collecting bribe for illegally logging, illegally business...LANDS GRABBING!
of course, it's a challenge, but must be done at all cost. in other words, cambodia shouldn't give up so easily. cambodia want the entire nation to have sanitation like water, sewage, etc, you know!
I got sick when i used waters from the pond/stream to brush my teeth, i urge people buy bottle waters if you visiting cambodia in the rural area...
Boil the water...man!
Clean water is big concern in Cambodia,...especially in the countryside...
People took advantage on your money, if you buy bottle waters in the rural area...though! I don't gurantee its purified?
it's a challenge for cambodia, however, it's not impossible, ok! what cambodia needs is exposure to better sanitation system, etc, because, the real problem is our country and most of our people lack this concept for so long while other countries had the advantage of education, exposure or influence from the western social, etc, you know!
Everywhere Vietnamese live along the
rivers and lakes such as Tonlesap,great lake in Cambodia,they
pollute in the lakes and rivers.They
threw tons and tons of dirty things
into the water.There are 500,000 Vietnamese living in the Great Lake(from Kompong Chhnang to Great Lake).Please go and see yourselves.
Hun Sen did not care what Viet did to
any places in Cambodia.
Vietnamese like to live in dirty places.
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