Comments on: Sanitation and drinking water: is the world on track?

By: C.T. Pope

C.T. Pope — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:04:17 +0000

Thanks Nate. I’ve fixed that error.

By: nate

nate — Sun, 24 May 2009 14:04:46 +0000

Good report, but I noticed a mistake, and a fairly large one at that.

It is when you say “Progress is being made, however, toward reducing the number of people who have access to safe drinking water.”

This is saying that progress is being made to reduce the number of people who actually DO have safe water, when what you really mean is progress is being made to reduce the number of people who do NOT have access to safe drinking water.

At least I hope that’s what you mean. No lol just kidding, but seriously, that should be fixed.
Again, good report

By: Burton Mukomba

Burton Mukomba — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:53:42 +0000

I would like to start receiving some information on Water and Sanitation

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By: Bloodless Dzwairo

Bloodless Dzwairo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:40:46 +0000

When you visit some of the very poor rural communities during midday to afternoon, you find that some ladies are sitting or sleeping, they are dirty and their clothes are also dirty. They will tell you that they are tired because they had to fetch water from very far, more than 1km away, sometimes in 25L plastic containers strapped on their backs or on their heads. They cannot afford to fetch extra to wash up or do extra laundry because its just too taxing. The 50L which they can afford to fetch per day is just enough for cooking and washing the plates and pots afterwards.

And we wonder why rural folk in these unsevrved environmnets are always dirty and scruffy. To them cleaning up is just luxury they cannot afford to indulge in, where the quantity of useable water is limited by the sheer distance to source.