Quotes About Sanitation

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences.

Sanitation is more important than Independence.

People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

I couldn't imagine not having clean water.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.

In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to fighting poverty, all of the world's population would enjoy basic social services, such as education, health care, nutrition, reproductive health, clean water and sanitation.

The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change.

The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world's issues.

I love to clean.

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.

We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.

Snow also saw that people who drank only beer in regions with bad air had less cholera than people who drank water in regions with better air. These and other inferences led him to suspect that the illness was waterborne and linked to human waste.

The switch to public sanitation may have cost more of the economy than the switch envisioned for the energy system, but the very large near-term payoffs of public sanitation made the economics much easier.

Some people like a bidet, but Mrs. Salk said she does not want to shoot water up herself from a spigot that others have also used.

I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness.

Desire to dwell in a clean environment.

Desire to dwell in clean environment.

Diarrhea, 90 percent of which is caused by food and water contaminated by excrement, kills a child every fifteen seconds. That's more than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human feces are an impressive weapon of mass destruction.

Even if I can take sanitary napkins to 10% of the poor women in India, it will be big achievement.