Over 3 million people in Cambodia do not have toilets, says govt report

[geovalin]

PHNOM PENH, Dec 26 (Xinhua): More than 3 million people in Cambodia, mostly living in rural areas, lacked access to toilets, the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) said in a press statement.
 

 

Some 74.57 percent of the country's population have access to latrines so far, as 25.43 per cent, or more than 3 million people, still defecate in the open such as in fields, bushes, or bodies of water, the MRD said in the statement, which was released to mark the 11th National Sanitation Day.

The MRD added that the entrenched practice of open defecation is putting people, especially children, in danger of faecal-oral diseases like diarrhea. Lun Sayteng, chief of the MRD's rural healthcare department, said living without a toilet and a handwashing facility could be harmful to human health, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.

read more https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2020/12/26/over-3-million-people-in-cambodia-do-not-have-toilets-says-govt-report

[vandeventer]

On 12/27/2020 at 8:45 AM, geovalin said:

PHNOM PENH, Dec 26 (Xinhua): More than 3 million people in Cambodia, mostly living in rural areas, lacked access to toilets, the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) said in a press statement.
 

 

Some 74.57 percent of the country's population have access to latrines so far, as 25.43 per cent, or more than 3 million people, still defecate in the open such as in fields, bushes, or bodies of water, the MRD said in the statement, which was released to mark the 11th National Sanitation Day.

The MRD added that the entrenched practice of open defecation is putting people, especially children, in danger of faecal-oral diseases like diarrhea. Lun Sayteng, chief of the MRD's rural healthcare department, said living without a toilet and a handwashing facility could be harmful to human health, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.

read more https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2020/12/26/over-3-million-people-in-cambodia-do-not-have-toilets-says-govt-report

WOW, and they still have no known deaths from covid-19, they must be doing something right?

[ChakaKhan]

Might explain the nervous looks on so many of their faces  ????

 

I sometimes joke with friends about that true fear of having to really go and not being able to find a toilet, as ive had many adventures in LOS regarding this....

[tomazbodner]

Helped some of them build toilets through kiva.org. It's micro-loans of 25$ each, by several backers, interest free usually, to those who are trying to improve their lives (either through building sanitation or starting/expanding their small business, etc.), so it's not even a donation. And once repaid, it can be loaned to others.

[AhFarangJa]

There is a very large populated Country North of Cambodia where a greater number of people have toilets, but do not know how to use them.

[Oldie]

What a sh.. 

[DaLa]

No S<deleted>t.

[Pilotman]

In India, that number is over  170 million?  

[VincentRJ]

The cows and horses and numerous other animals don't have toilets. Their excrement is considered to be good for the soil. Why should human excrement not be good for the soil? ????

[partington]

6 hours ago, VincentRJ said:

The cows and horses and numerous other animals don't have toilets. Their excrement is considered to be good for the soil. Why should human excrement not be good for the soil? ????

Is this a joke?  No-one is saying it's not a fertiliser. The reason is, as the article states, human excrement is full of human pathogens and will spread disease that is already fully adapted to humans. Cholera is a prime example.

[VincentRJ]

37 minutes ago, partington said:

Is this a joke?  No-one is saying it's not a fertiliser. The reason is, as the article states, human excrement is full of human pathogens and will spread disease that is already fully adapted to humans. Cholera is a prime example.

Partly a joke, but the question remains; are cow and horse excrements also full of cow and horse pathogens that spread disease that is already fully adapted to cows and horses?

[RichardColeman]

On 12/27/2020 at 1:45 AM, geovalin said:

PHNOM PENH, Dec 26 (Xinhua): More than 3 million people in Cambodia, mostly living in rural areas, lacked access to toilets, the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) said in a press statement.

I'm guessing the  houses get more expenses the further you move upstream

[partington]

On 12/28/2020 at 1:13 PM, VincentRJ said:

Partly a joke, but the question remains; are cow and horse excrements also full of cow and horse pathogens that spread disease that is already fully adapted to cows and horses?

Well of course. It's just that we have got into the habit of thinking human lives are more important.

[VincentRJ]

5 hours ago, partington said:

Well of course. It's just that we have got into the habit of thinking human lives are more important.

Surely we always thought human lives are more important. All species think their own lives are more important, don't they? That's not the issue here.

 

All excrement should be returned to the soil. There should be no bad health consequences if the community has a clean water supply and everyone washes their hands after touching excrement.

 

Perhaps the Cambodians could learn from the Chinese.

 

"Flushing the water closet is handy, but it wreaks ecological havoc, deprives agricultural soils of essential nutrients and makes food production dependent on fossil fuels. For 4,000 years, human excrements and urine were considered extremely valuable trade products in China, Korea and Japan. Human dung was transported over specially designed canal networks by boats.
 

Thanks to the application of human "waste" products as fertilizers to agricultural fields, the East managed to feed a large population without polluting their drinking water. Meanwhile, cities in medieval Europe turned into open sewers. The concept was modernized in late 19th century Holland, with Charles Liernur's sophisticated vacuum sewer system."

 

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2010/09/recycling-animal-and-human-dung-is-the-key-to-sustainable-farming.html

 

"Empirical analysis based on data from stratified random sampling of rural households in five provinces of China shows that about 85% of human excreta was still used as manure in agriculture in 2007 which was less than a decade ago when nearly all human excreta was used as manure." 

 

https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S2095311913604074?token=94D6422712B318E640239004F80A9FFB233765492E5AFB2BC3AE5B2ED5EEBEFA4744815A33DC08D36CE05185E87A68F4

[partington]

Perhaps not quite the best time to advocate Chinese practices as beneficial to human health.

[PatOngo]

So where does Hun Sen do his business? ???? I guess he wipes himself with $100 US dollar bills!

[VincentRJ]

6 hours ago, partington said:

Perhaps not quite the best time to advocate Chinese practices as beneficial to human health.

 

What!! The Chinese have among the lowest Covid-19 death rates in the world, per million of population. They've handled the infection spread extremely well. ????

 

Cambodia has apparently zero deaths from Covid-19, which suggests that the real figures are very low, if actually not quite zero.

[AlfHuy]

On 12/28/2020 at 10:02 AM, AhFarangJa said:

There is a very large populated Country North of Cambodia where a greater number of people have toilets, but do not know how to use them.

They treat the whole world as "their" toilet.

[AlfHuy]

On 12/28/2020 at 10:48 AM, Pilotman said:

In India, that number is over  170 million?  

Send all that sh... to Thailand.

Good fertiliser, I was told.

[AlfHuy]

I am actually working on my listening at the LSE

 

Company name: <deleted>tybangbang

 

We buy back unused and unloved toilets and give them a new lease of life.

 

Please get in touch.

Free pick-up.

[madmen]

It's kind of ironic that a <deleted>hole country doesn't have enough places to siht

[AlfHuy]

The world famous phone manufacturer "Pear" is no working on their latest invention.