Water Pakistan

In most of south Asia and Pakistan specially , we are flushing untreated filth to streams of no treatment.
and consider it developing sanitation.

I beleive, this is cruel to flush down our filth to down stream
dwellings and think that we are a snitation covered population.

Sanitation by definition is safe disposal of Human Waste, Solid waste
and Hospital waste. So let us stop , think and start a sensible sanitation program.

Treat the waste water , as much as possible before Flushing it down
stream into fresh waters canals, rivers and streams.
Treating water and recovering nutrients will also help save precious soil nutrients being depleted causing low food productivity and high cost of refinishing soil nutrients by fertilizers.

Can any body suggest this is a better choice than open defecation ?

M Jahangir
Islamabad Pakistan

Water sanitation and Hygiene –Nexus , Major contributor to our under development in south Asia
Muhammad Jahangir

We started our effort to improve the quality of life of our
marginalized part of society via improving the quality and quantity of
drinking water, over a decade ago.
The rationale was the discovery of frequent episodes of disease like
Diarrhea, Cholera, Typhoid, Hepatitis and several other, Caused by
poor quality drinking water.
After struggling for over three years we realized that striving for
health benefits solely via safe drinking water was not on. We shall
have to address our issues of sanitation and hygiene education at the
same time, because the problems are interlinked and water sanitation
and hygiene (WATSAN) education need to be addressed and taken as a
collective issue.
The diseases due WATSAN, results in agony and death .Disease of dear
and near ones causing Loss of working hours, spending on medical
treatment and hence a deficient domestic spending in an already poor
home.
Mother, supervising elder sister / brothers spending major time and
energy in collecting water from distant parts of the community, are
unable to contribute their role in family upbringing and development,
which is the right of younger, growing family members. This
deprivation results in a poor family development and family fabric in
addition to exposing female folk to dangers of harassment and
accidents.
Frequent disease episodes and low spending capability results in
children not attending schools, mal nourished, and rowdy youngsters,
eventually growing into unhealthy members of the society and burden on
it.
Poor families are already food deficient and are infested with
Helminthes in their digestive track that results in having strong
competitor of already scarce food, making the poor more
malnutritioned.
If we look at all indicators of under development at a glance like
Poverty, education, health and a forthcoming youth force capable of
contributing to a developed nation infrastructure we conclude that the
common link/ cause of our under development in south Asia is our
inattention to water , sanitation and Hygiene education.