IN July 2010, New York City began requiring restaurants to publicly post letter grades summarizing their sanitation reports.
The Rohingya camps are now, with the rainy season approaching, in dire condition and this report calls for greater efforts to tackle overcrowding and provide water and sanitation, reports the BBC's Jonah Fisher in Bangkok.
13 In 2010, after the earthquake, the Haitian Directorate for Potable Water and Sanitation reported that 26% of the rural population received improved water and 10% improved sanitation; in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, the coverage was 35%and20%0%, respectively (Haitian Directorate for Potable Water and Sanitation five-year plan).
In all, 2.4 billion people worldwide lack access to basic sanitation, the report said.
Around 2.5 billion people still lack basic sanitation, the report said.
Many Africans rely solely on natural resources for their livelihoods and lack a means of coping with environmental hazards like air and water pollution and poor sanitation, the report notes.
"The World Health Organisation said that since 1990 1.3 billion people had gained improved drinking water and 500 million better sanitation," you report; whereas Professor Asit Biswas, president of the Third World Centre for Water Management, "said official figures showing that many cities and countries had met their targets were 'baloney'".
Advances in sanitation, the report says, often bypass the poor and those living in rural areas.
When it comes to sanitation, the report finds that the situation is even worse.
Examining sanitation, the report finds that an estimated 1.2 billion people have gained access to basic sanitation since 1990, with global coverage rising from 49 per cent to 59 per cent.
