User:JustinePorto/Public toilets in Eritrea
| Public toilets in Eritrea | |
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 Toilet on the beach of Bab el-Mandeb | |
| Language of toilets | |
| Local words | WC |
| Men's toilets | Men |
| Women's toilets | Women |
| Public toilet statistics | |
| Toilets per 100,000 people | ??? (2021) |
| Total toilets | ?? |
| Public toilet use | |
| Type | ??? |
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| Date first modern public toilets | ??? |
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Public toilets in Eritrea are rare and open defecation is common. Some municipal governments have had plans to improve their public toilet situation.
Public toilets[edit]
A plan was created by the municipal government of Asmara to construct and renovate existing public toilets in 2010.[1] Public toilets in Asmara were renovated in 2013.[1]
WaterAid said in 2016 that the country ranked in the top ten in the world for countries where public defecation was most common.[2] In 2000, the countries with the lowest sanitation coverage in Africa were Ethiopia, Eritrea, Benin, Congo, Gabon and Niger.[3]
Regional and global situation impacting public toilets in Eritrea[edit]
Around 2.5 billion people around the world in 2018 did not have access to adequate toilet facilities. Around 4.5 billion people lacked access to proper sanitation.[4] Public toilet access around the world is most acute in the Global South, with around 3.6 billion people, 40% of the world's total population, lacking access to any toilet facilities. 2.3 people in the the Global South do not have toilet facilities in their residence. Despite the fact that the United Nation made a declaration in 2010 that clean water and sanitation is a human right, little has been done in many places towards addressing this on a wider level.[5] There are a lack of public toilets in East Africa.[6]
Public toilets, depending on their design, can be tools of social exclusion.[7] The lack of single-sex women's toilets in developing countries makes it harder for women to participate in public life, in education and in the workplace.[7] Across Africa, open defecation had social consequences. These included loss of dignity and privacy. It also put women at risk of sexual violence.[2]
An issue in developing countries is toilet access in schools. Only 46% of schools in developing countries have them.[8] Many schools around the world in 2018 did not have toilets, with the problem particularly acute in parts of Africa and Asia. Only one in five primary schools on earth had a toilet and only one in eight secondary schools had public toilets.[4] Flush toilets are often only found in affluent areas of developing countries.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Renovation of public toilets underway in Asmara". Eritrea Ministry Of Information. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
- ^ a b Reuters (2016-11-18). "Pakistan among 10 worst countries for access to toilets". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2022-10-11.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ a b Drewko, Aleksandra (September 2007). Resource-Oriented Public Toilets in Oriented Public Toilets in Developing Countries: Ideas, Design, Operation and Maintenance for Arba Minch, Ethiopia. Hamburg: Hamburg University of Technology.
- ^ a b Associated Press (19 November 2018). "World Toilet Day Highlights Global Sanitation Crisis". VOA. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ Glassman, Stephanie; Firestone, Julia (May 2022). "Restroom Deserts: Where to go when you need to go" (PDF). AARP.
- ^ South, David (2012-05-15). Southern Innovator Magazine Issue 2: Youth and Entrepreneurship: How youth and entrepreneurship can help in the push to meet the MDGs. DSConsulting.
- ^ a b Das, Maitreyi Bordia (19 November 2017). "The tyranny of toilets". World Bank. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ Fleischner, Nicki (21 November 2015). "Toilets by the numbers". Global Citizen. Retrieved 10 October 2022.