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As we prepare for a new decade…we need to make politicians and ordinary people aware of what it means when large sections of society are denied safe water and sanitation. We need to consider what price people pay through poor health and lost wages; what a nation pays through enormous medical bills and lost economic opportunities. What price does one put on women’s safety and dignity? — Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director,
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More than 2.6 billion people-over 40 per cent of the world's population-do not have basic sanitation, and more than one billion people still use unsafe sources of drinking water.                                                                               Four out of every ten people in the world don't have access even to a simple latrine.                                                                        Five million people, mostly children, die each year from water-borne diseases.                                                             Every year six million children die from malnutrition before their fifth birthday.                                                             In some deeply impoverished nations less than half of the children are in primary school and under 20 percent go to secondary school. Around the world, a total of 114 million children do not get even a basic education and 584 million women are illiterate.
Source: The UN Millennium Project

SulabhENVIS Centre at Sulabh International Institute of Health and Hygiene (SIIHH), has been assigned the following topics:
   Hygiene
   Sanitation
   Sewage Treatment Systems and Technology

Hygiene and Safe Sanitation Practices

Safe Water keeps you healthy; use chlorine to filter water
Clean source of drinking water should be preferred
Correct handling of drinking water should be done
Filter and boil water for drinking purpose
Protect water to protect yourself

Email : sulabh@envis.nic.in
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Millennium Development Goals Report 2005

A status report prepared by 25 UN agencies and international organizations on reaching the internationally endorsed Millennium Development Goals has been issued Thursday, 9 June 2005 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
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