7 Billion People Face the Problem of Human Stools

the UN estimates the world population to reach 7 billion on 31 October. There are still 2.6 billion people who defecate carelessly so that there are more than 200 million tons of human waste is not handled properly which will impact on the health condition.

In developing countries, 90 percent of human waste is dumped directly into lakes, rivers and oceans. Even some of the exhaust system already look old so it could be destroyed if hit by heavy rains.



World Health Organization (WHO) said if all this waste is not handled properly, it will increase the public health crisis that is estimated to kill 1.4 million children each year, namely a child every 20 seconds. This amount is greater than the incorporation of cases of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Currently sanitation still not getting serious attention compared to other health problems. The UN was therefore set a goal to reduce the number of people who do not get basic sanitation.

"Sanitation is not an attractive or sexy issue to be discussed, as well as sometimes seen taboo in many contexts," said Dan Yeo, a senior policy analyst at WaterAid, as quoted by LiveScience, Wednesday (10/26/2011).

Yeo said that this taboo issue becomes one of the reasons that make sanitation difficult to be separated from the main issues in people's minds. Generally, if built good sanitation, the people will want to come and use it.

In addition to defecate in the bush (open BAB) is still a major sanitation problem of society, whereas pathogenic bacteria from feces can get into the village and often contaminate the public water supply that can trigger the disease and also urinary tract infections.

Even so some cultures and ways of thinking in using the bathroom sometimes become a hindrance to good sanitation to socialize, so it took its own approach.

To create good sanitary latrines are not only needed, but also need for adequate plumbing so that this human waste will not contaminate ground water or public shelter.

UN reveals the proportion of people living in urban slums around the world has dropped from 39 percent (in 2000) to 33 percent (in 2010). However, if seen from the number actually increased by about 828 million slums worldwide in 2010.

"The physical layout of the urban slum latrine construction difficult, high-density human waste is also high and unfortunately not followed by an optimal latrine construction," said Yeo.

It required a serious in addressing the problem of sanitation in the community along with the continued increase of population in the world.