World Toilet Day is an important reminder that plumbing and sanitation are a blessing to many. Diarrhea resulting from poor sanitation such as inadequate toilets and dirty water kills 315,000 children yearly, according to estimates by WASHwatch, an online project that collects data on water and sanitation.

Research by the charity found that more than 100 million people on earth are forced to practise what's known as 'open defecation' - using roadsides, railway tracks, or plastic bags as a toilet.
Here are the top 10 countries with the most urban dwellers without safe, private toilets:
1. India
India has the highest number of urban dwellers who do not have access to safe and private toilets - 157 million people.
Eight Olympic-sized swimming pools could be filled daily with excrement produced by India's 41 million urban residents who must defecate in the open.
2. China
China, which also has a massive rate of rural to urban migration, is the second worst, with 104 million people without safe sanitation.

However, WaterAid also ranks China top of the “most improved” countries for reaching the highest number of people in urban areas with safe, private toilets. The state has managed to build sanitation facilities faster than the pace of new arrivals, providing more than 329 million people since 2000 with urban sanitation systems, outpacing population growth by 9 million

3. Nigeria
A newly launched report on the 2016 State of the World Toilet by WaterAid Nigeria has revealed that 130million representing 71 percent of Nigerians lack access to safe, private toilet. 58 million people out of the number living in urban cities lack access to improved sanitation facilities and 13.5million urban dwellers defecate in the open, the report further noted.
Other countries that make the top 10 list are:
4. Indonesia
5. Russia
6. Bangladesh
7. The Democratic Republic of Congo
8. Brazil
9. Ethiopia
10. Pakistan

According to research, every $1 spent on sanitation and water generates a $4.3 return in the form of reduced health care costs.

(credits: Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, property rights and climate change.)

http://healthcustodian.com/world-toilet-day-top-10-countries-with-the-most-urban-dwellers-without-safe-private-toilets/

58 million people out of the number living in urban cities lack access to improved sanitation facilities and 13.5million urban dwellers defecate in the open, the report further noted.

Lemme understand something. As in una go round Nigeria dey count people wey dey shït outside? Got no respek for these statistics.


On a lighter note though....Methuselah use to poo outside. And he lived for 969 years. Nuff Said.

*modified*
FTC on a post about public defecation. Seun and Lala is it how you people use to do?

PiccoloBrunelli:
58 million people out of the number living in urban cities lack access to improved sanitation facilities and 13.5million urban dwellers defecate in the open, the report further noted.

Lemme understand something. As in una go round Nigeria dey count people wey dey shït outside? Got no respek for these statistics.


On a lighter note though....Methuselah use to poo outside. And he lived for 969 years. Nuff Said.

Una come Nigeria

op, u mean [size=26pt]afonjas toilet[/size] ranked third in DA world

we know the set of people that do this
they know themselves

Who else if no afonjas. They defecate any place

That's achievement now,,at least we are in the top 3

Nigerians you see ur life

All thanks to Ekiti state.

Hmnmmmmm

Ekykool:

A newly launched report on the 2016 State of the World Toilet by WATERAID Nigeria has revealed that 130million representing 71 percent of Nigerians lack access to safe, private toilet. 58 million people out of the number living in urban cities lack access to improved sanitation facilities and 13.5million urban dwellers defecate in the open, the report further noted.

Who has heard of this WATERAID people before?





Awon useless statistics

What good can come out of Nigeria?

Wetin person no go see

. Thanks GOD I'm not a Nigerian

josephobaro:
What good can come out of Nigeria?

Lets confess positively abeg.

The 10 countries on that list are the among the countries with the highest population densities so it's a global problem of being unable to manage high population densities but some idiot tribalist above me has already turned this to Afonja vs Flatron issue

I don't believe it...naija 3rd not possible.

All because of Yorubas

Lol....
Shalanga things....

Okirika in Rivers state comes to mind

probably true, after all "shot-put " is the order of the day in most educational institutions.

beautiful232:
. Thanks GOD I'm not a Nigerian

Hmmmmm

All these useless statistics



That's how they said Nigeria's average IQ is 69

I was going to accept this list but then for the fact ghana didn't make the list then this crap is worthless.atleast ghana should be 2nd

Foolish nonsense, when are they going to have World anus day?

The white man sets up all these useless "world days" and we Africans waste our time and resources observing them, whilst he doesn't observe in his country.

What is white man 's motives? Iam not sure, be assured it design like all things he does, to detrimental to African whilst he profits.

PiccoloBrunelli:
58 million people out of the number living in urban cities lack access to improved sanitation facilities and 13.5million urban dwellers defecate in the open, the report further noted.

Lemme understand something. As in una go round Nigeria dey count people wey dey shït outside? Got no respek for these statistics.


On a lighter note though....Methuselah use to poo outside. And he lived for 969 years. Nuff Said.

lolz u're damn funny

odinese:
op, u mean [size=26pt]afonjas toilet[/size] ranked third in DA world

Bomb dey ur head

Who are d pple incharge of dis ranking cuz i doubt they are not africans

India! 8 Olympic-Sized Swimming pool bawo?

We "won" bronze in this!