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Reasons Why Ghana Is World's 7th Dirtiest Country In The World by alexdan1881: 9:39pm On Jul 26, 2015 |
A JOINT World Health Organisation (WHO) and
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
sanitation report has rated Ghana as the world’s
7th worst performing country.
The new report released on Tuesday says that th
challenge to access improved sanitation is starke
in Ghana, “which has slipped even further
amongst the worst performing countries, now
ranked 7th worst globally.”
The Joint Monitoring Programme report
dubbed “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking
Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment” , is a
collaborative effort between the WHO and
UNICEF.
Ghana, currently with a sanitation coverage of
15%, is ranked after South Sudan, which has a
7% coverage, Niger with 11%, Chad, Madagascar
and Togo with 12%; and Sierra Leone, which has
a 13% access to household toilets - the
measurement used for the ranking.
It also said that while in Ghana about 7,500
children die annually from diarrhoea, which is
linked to unsafe drinking water, poor sanitation,
or poor hygiene, only one in eight Ghanaians
regularly wash their hands, a situation which
aggravates outbreaks such as cholera.
Ghana is far from being the only one grappling
with dirty problems. Almost 700 million people
missed the sanitation target with only 95
countries meeting it.
This incredibly poor lack of progress in sanitatio
the report:
Northern Africa and sub-Saharan Africa did not
meet the MDG drinking water target
The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target
called for the proportion of the population withou
sustainable access to safe drinking water to be
halved between 1990 and 2015.
But still today, significant proportions of people
living in Africa are using rivers, lakes, ponds and
irrigation canals as their main source of drinking
water. Seven out of ten of the 159 million people
relying on water taken directly from rivers, lakes
and other surface waters live in sub-Saharan
Africa, eight times more than any other region.
Sub-Saharan Africa missed drinking water
target but still showed dramatic increases
Sub-Saharan Africa fell short of the MDG target
but still achieved a 20% increase in the use of
improved sources of drinking water. This meant
that 427 million people gained access during the
MDG period – an average of 47,000 people per
day for 25 years.
The number of people practising open
defecation has actually increased in sub-Saharan
Africa over the MDG period
During the MDG period, the elimination of public
pooping was increasingly recognised as a top
priority for improving health, nutrition and
productivity of developing country populations.
The region now accounts for a greater share of
the global total than in 1990 with all other region
recorded a reduction.
Ethiopia achieved the largest decrease in the
proportion of the population practising open
defecation
Ethiopia achieved the largest decrease in the
proportion of the population practising open
defecation - from 92% in 1990 to 29% in 2015, a
reduction over five times greater than the regiona
average for the same period. Open defecation
was practised by 44.3 million Ethiopians in 1990
and 28.3 million in 2015.
Some African countries were among the star
performers in increasing access to piped water o
premises by at least 25%
Botswana (52%), Egypt (37%), Senegal (33%),
Mauritania (26%) and Morocco (25%)
Egypt tops the charts in reducing inequality in
access to water and sanitation
The gap in access to water and sanitation
between the richest and poorest quintiles is an
important measure of inequality. Only six
countries succeeded in halving the proportion of
the poorest without improved sanitation in both
rural and urban areas and Egypt was the only on
from Africa. Nine countries succeeded in halving
the proportion of the population without improve
drinking water in both rural and urban areas,
Egypt, Tunisia and Uganda representing the
continent. Only three countries achieved both:
Egypt, Jordan and Mexico. |
Re: Reasons Why Ghana Is World's 7th Dirtiest Country In The World by alexdan1881: 9:41pm On Jul 26, 2015 |
Only one in eight Ghanaians
regularly wash their hands.
Ethiopia achieved largest
improvement, over five times
greater than the regional
average. |
Re: Reasons Why Ghana Is World's 7th Dirtiest Country In The World by Nobody: 9:43pm On Jul 26, 2015 |
Re: Reasons Why Ghana Is World's 7th Dirtiest Country In The World by iliyande(m): 9:50pm On Jul 26, 2015 |
Ah, even worse than our own here? |
Re: Reasons Why Ghana Is World's 7th Dirtiest Country In The World by Mrbigman1(m): 10:31pm On Jul 26, 2015 |
Dats y dem dey black like unknown. D dirt even enter dia tongue |
Re: Reasons Why Ghana Is World's 7th Dirtiest Country In The World by OXYGEN01: 12:14am On Jul 27, 2015 |
Mrbigman1:So which people are more darker than you nigerian fools? You fools are not just dark but ugly and smelly as well. |
Re: Reasons Why Ghana Is World's 7th Dirtiest Country In The World by Johnnoah1st: 2:03am On Jul 27, 2015 |
OXYGEN01:U ARE DARK AN SHORT, while nigerians is not as dark as u. |
Re: Reasons Why Ghana Is World's 7th Dirtiest Country In The World by OXYGEN01: 6:55am On Jul 27, 2015 |
Johnnoah1st:You fools are more darker than black goats.You fools are dark,short,ugly and smelly. |
Re: Reasons Why Ghana Is World's 7th Dirtiest Country In The World by Johnnoah1st: 7:29am On Jul 27, 2015 |
OXYGEN01:SHUT UP! who even give u access to d internet? we d citizen of giant of africa is talking one tiny country dat is not up to a state in nigeria is also talking, idiat! Bleep off! |
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