Sanitation Without Sewers
Source: MIT Tech Review (https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2019/#sanitation-without-sewers) Published: March 2019
Source: MIT Tech Review (https://www.technologyreview.com/lists/technologies/2019/#sanitation-without-sewers)
Published: March 2019
Sanitation Without Sewers
Circulated: April 18, 2019
2.3 billion people do not have basic sanitation facilities such as toilets or latrines.
750 billion people consume food irrigated by wastewater.
842K people die in low and middle income countries each year as a result of inadequate water sanitation and hygiene.
892M people defecate in the open, for example in street gutters, behind bushes, or into open bodies of water.