The sanitation situation in sub-Saharan Africa is getting worse.
via www.bbc.co.uk
Two of the Millennium Development Goals, announced at a summit attended by 189 world leaders in May 2000, related to the most basic of human needs: clean water and sanitation.
The objective was to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the world's population who existed without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation.
A report released by the UK charity Water Aid to correspond with World Toilet Day on 19 November indicates that poor water and sanitation costs Sub-Saharan Africa about 5% of its gross domestic product each year.
That is equivalent to the amount of aid the continent currently receives from Western nations.
With less than four years to the deadline, Dr Zafar Adeel, the chair of UN Water, says the situation is actually worse now than it was in 2000.
"The effort to provide sanitation is not keeping up with the population growth," he says.
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