Smart Sanitation

The World Health Organisation defines Sanitation as the provision of facilities and services for the safe management of human excreta from the toilet to containment and storage and treatment onsite or conveyance, treatment and eventual safe end use or disposal. Goal 6, Target 2 of the Sustainable Development Goal calls for achieving access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all by the year 2030. The impact of poor sanitation has been widely documented in many studies. Poor sanitation is associated with transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio and exacerbates stunting. It leads to trapping of an individual in a vicious cycle of poverty and malnutrition. It is also one of the main causes for under five mortality. Besides health, poor sanitation is also against an individual’s rights and dignity, as identified in 2010, the UN General Assembly.