19 November is...

Aku baru tahu bahawa 19 November setiap tahun telah diisytihar sebagai Hari Tandas (World Toilet Day) -- a day on which the world is reminded that more than 2.5 billion people - over 40% of the world’s population - still have no access to basic sanitation.

Of these, more than 1 billion live without access to any kind of toilet at all and are forced to defecate in the open. Basic sanitation is something that we often take for granted in developed countries. We may cringe when experiencing toilet facilities at large public events in the UK, yet these provisions are still a great advance on what billions of people in the developing world experience every day.

Lack of sanitation is one of the main causes of sickness, disease and infant death in developing countries. Around 4,000 people, mostly children, die every day as a result of diarrhoea-related illnesses, caused in part by unsafe water and a lack of access to basic sanitation facilities. The World Health Organisation estimates that improved sanitation reduces diarrhoea morbidity by 32%.

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p/s -- Begitulah keadaan dunia hari ini. Di sesetengah negara, ada penduduknya yang nak eham, eham pun susah. Tetapi di negara kita nak masuk tandas awam, "BERCINTA" gamaknya. Dan, rupanya Hari Tandas Sedunia ini telah dimulakan sejak tahun 2001 lagi.