Essay About Sanitation

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I chose the subject of sanitation because it is something that everyone should be able to have available to them. Everyone everywhere should have access to fresh drinking water and appropriate means of adequate sewage disposal. By being able to have apposite sanitation procedures one is able to diminish many diseases and increase a healthier life. Billions of individuals lack the ability to be able to have a place to defecate, let alone a private place to, which leads to open defecation and then in return causes diseases like Cholera. A couple of weeks ago we watched a TEDTalk about sanitation issues, during the video, a picture was shown of a young man who was down in a deep hole covered in fecal matter. Not even a spot of personal protective …show more content…

Seeing the look on that young man’s face had been just enough to want to explore more into this topic of sanitation. What makes sanitation so complex is that in order to have a proper sewage system, it would take billions of dollars to achieve full water borne in all countries. Also being able to keep up with the growth of urban areas would have to be a full blown investment. According to Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor, sanitation progress has only increased 5% since 1990. Not to mention that 1 in 4 city residents worldwide live without improved sanitation which is about 2.5 billion people (WSUP, 2016). This means that more people in the world lack sanitation that the people who actually do have proper sanitation. Just sitting here pondering that is absolutely mind-blowing to me, that in 2016 many parts of the world are still struggling to achieve sanitation and clean …show more content…

The definition as stated in the, ‘Online Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy’ as, “A normative ethical theory that places the locus of right and wrong solely on the outcomes (consequences) of choosing one action/policy over other actions/policies. As such, it moves beyond the scope of one 's own interests and takes into account the interests of others” (Utilitarian Theories, 2016). This means that the goal of the Utilitarianism Theories goal is to promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. This theory is based off of a whole society factor instead of just basing its ideas with a single individual in mind. The creator of the Utilitarianism Theory was a man born in 1748 named Jeremy Bentham. According to Harvard Universities writer Michael Sandel, “Bentham argues that the principle of utility should be the basis of morality and law, and by utility he understands whatever promotes pleasure and prevents pain” (Sandel, 2011). This big idea of Utilitarianism is basically written on the idea of what can we use to promote the most pleasure to get rid of pain for everyone. The right thing for the Utilitarianism Theory would be to get access to safe sanitation so that everyone will benefit from it thus resulting in a happy society. The idea is to be able to completely maximize all utilities in order to achieve this great happiness for everyone around.

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