Sanitation Updates

Bangladesh – Clean break from cycle of disease

March 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Bangladesh is facing an environmental crisis.

It has the highest population density of any nation on the planet; and a half of its people are without adequate sanitation.

As a result, the rivers and fields are polluted with human waste that enters the food chain.

According to figures from Water Aid, 125,000 children under the age of five die each year from diarrhoeal diseases.

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