Filthy toilets a blight on Asian prosperity
Singapore (AFP) May 2, 2011 -
Fast-growing Asian economies may be flush with money but filthy toilets remain a blight across the region despite rising standards of living, with dire effects on poverty reduction and public health. Social activists say dismal sanitation facilities are causing preventable diseases in poor communities where people would readily spend money on a mobile phone - but not on a latrine. "I th ... more
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