Situation Analysis : Sanitation Scenario in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh
Excreta and wastewater contain high concentrations of pathogens. Poor excreta and wastewater handling and disposal leads to excreted pathogens entering the environment. This coupled with lack of adequate personal and domestic hygiene; in-sanitary c...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/02/18505467/madya-pradesh-sanitation-scenario-hoshangabad-situation-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17383 |
| Summary: | Excreta and wastewater contain high
concentrations of pathogens. Poor excreta and wastewater
handling and disposal leads to excreted pathogens entering
the environment. This coupled with lack of adequate personal
and domestic hygiene; in-sanitary conditions at community
level and discharge of untreated wastewater pose high risk
to human health. The World Health Organization (WHO)
estimates that 2.2 million people die annually from
diarrheal diseases and that 10 percent of the population of
the developing world are severely infected with intestinal
worms related to improper waste and excreta management (WHO
2000). Improving access to sanitation facilities and
management of liquid waste continues to be a major challenge
for all ULBs in India. According to census 2001, about 285
million people (54.79 million households) lived in urban
areas. Nearly 26 percent of these households lacked access
to sanitation facilities (and most were forced to defecate
in the open). In the same year, 32 percent of 2.79 million
urban households in Madhya Pradesh lacked access to
sanitation facilities. Madhya Pradesh, popularly referred
as the heartland of lndia, has 338 urban centers (GOMP,
2007). In 2001, the level of urbanization (at about 27
percent) in the state was comparable with the national
urbanization level (28 percent). More than a third of the
state's urban population lives in 9 major cities of the
state. According to GOMP (2007), in 1991, only about 45
percent urban households had access to all three facilities
of water, sanitation and electricity. By 2001, this
proportion went up to about 62 percent. Though this is a
significant progress, there is still a long way to achieve
universal access. Nearly 12 percent urban households lack
access to safe drinking water. The status of urban
sanitation is abysmal with only about 53 percent households
reporting access to improved sanitation facilities. Among
the rest, 15 percent access 'other' latrines and a
large proportion of households (32 percent) lacked access to
sanitation facilities. Thus, improving access to improved
sanitation facilities continues to be a major challenge
despite more than two decades of focus and attention to the sector. |
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