Lack of Sanitation

     When you need to use the restroom, normally you just walk down the hallway or around the

corner in your home, but for some people that may not be the case.

Some of the biggest sanitation issues occur around the world in third world countries and still have

yet to be solved. Unclean water supply and trashed neighborhoods are the current living situations

and will remain that way unchanged. How much do we really know about other people's living

situation and if not what do we really have to complain about?

In Africa, there are several areas that raise a red flag when it comes

to sanitation. For example, in Ghana there are people who live in

 communities where they are forced to share public restrooms

because they don't have the luxury of going in their homes. Many

people do not have toilets of there own which is a big issue in Africa, and sharing these public

restrooms per community worsens an individuals hygiene. Aside from that, they don't have clean

water to drink from and have to walk around 60 Km to reach a safe drinking water supply. This

shortage of clean water reduces the chances that they will maintain a proper hygiene which remains a

severe sanitation hazard. Approximately 19,000 civilians die yearly from diarrhea due to the lack of

sanitation and zero drinking water. There are many other diseases that are accompanied because of

these issues. They don't have the access to safe drinking water and many civilians don't know

hygiene. STILL this remains an issue for Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Liberia and the list goes

 on.

In India, children as small as the age of 5 are

most affected and suffer from poor sanitation and

 are malnourished. Similar to Ghana, half of

India's population has communities that don't

 have there own toilet to use in their homes and

have to go outside in the open space. The

children are the ones that spend there time

outside the most and the air and water is contaminated. This leaves the community looking like and

smelling like one big sewer. The malnutrition is due to the bad living conditions that leads to a

number of illnesses, diseases, and bacterial infections. Diarrhea and worm infections is a common

result of the lack of sanitation and is a high mortality rate in India.

Now that we know a little about how other people suffer in terms of lack of sanitation, what would

our first world problems look like to them?