Comments on: Everyone Poops

By: Web Designing Pakistan

Web Designing Pakistan — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:51:09 +0000

This issue is not only relate to rural areas as shown in video but some of the deaths at urban peripheries are also caused by usage of contaminated water.

This issue topic should be highlighted more appropriately to create awareness and to show the consequences.

By: Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:07:12 +0000

I remember when I used to live in Bangladesh, a poster was circulated with the cartoon picture of a village housewife with multiple arms coming out of her sides, kind of like a familiar Hindu goddess.
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I think I actually have that poster somewhere it storage. It certainly must have got around! (I think I got a copy from the guesthouse ran by either the NGO that was making the posters or affiliated to the campaign).
And yes, my wife of course does not work

By: Kalsoom

Kalsoom — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:59:01 +0000

Very shocking stats – thanks AM.

By: AM

AM — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:36:50 +0000

Kalsoom, thanks for posting this. Currently 2.5 billion people worldwide lack access to basic sanitation – according to the JMP.
There was limited increase in ‘access’ to sanitation in Pakistan in the 1990s. However, since 2002/03, there have been marked improvements. JMP noted that between 1990 and 2006 rural access to sanitation has grown from 14% to 40%, and urban access has grown from 76% to 90% enabling an overall sanitation sector growth from 33% to 58%. Pakistan is now not only likely to meet, but should current trends continue, it will exceed by some margin its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for sanitation.
While the progress in meeting these targets is significant and laudable, there are continuing concerns over the quality of the services. About 2,000 million gallons of sewage is discharged to surface water bodies every day in Pakistan, according to the Strategic Environmental Assessment of the World Bank. UNICEF estimates that some 20-40% of hospital beds in Pakistan are occupied by patients suffering from water and sanitation related diseases. 60% of the total number of child mortality cases in Pakistan is caused by water and sanitation related diseases – according to USAID.
The horrific toll that these illnesses and deaths take on society can never be measured in financial costs, but it is important to note how much in financial terms it costs the people of Pakistan not to have universal access to sanitation.
The Pakistan Strategic Environmental Assessment (World Bank, 2006) estimates that of the financial cost to Pakistan from environmental degradation the highest is from water and sanitation at 112 billion rupees. In the same report, the total health costs from the water and sanitation related diseases of diarrhoea and typhoid is estimated at 114 billion rupees, or 1.81 % of GDP.
Some 50 million people (JMP, 2006) still practice open defecation as of 2006 in Pakistan. To fully meet this challenge, sector stakeholders agree that the ‘people’s movement’ in Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), depicted in the film, must be supported.

By: Rafay Kashmiri

Rafay Kashmiri — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:02:49 +0000

@ I can see the whole PPP in this video even

small Altafo with his new wife !! Zardari with pagree,

but don’t see ” Mon Sherry “

By: Rafay Kashmiri

Rafay Kashmiri — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:46:40 +0000

@ World bank should inform us about water & sanitation in

India and should also show us the Personal Hygienic

situation in US and 25 European countries which is logically

related to the subject

By: Yawar

Yawar — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:56:45 +0000

A twitter animation to brighten your day…off topic. sowwee…

By: Kalsoom

Kalsoom — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:09:10 +0000

Maybe the illustrious hair swoop threw you off.

By: Kalsoom

Kalsoom — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:08:38 +0000

That’s not Gilani! That’s Younis!! The poop guy!

By: NB

NB — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:45:49 +0000

I know I sound utterly ditzy, but the guy in the blue shalwar kamiz to the right of the opening frame of the video looks just like Gilani.