Asides air, water is the most important resource to man. Water availability and proper sanitation are essential to protect children’s health and their ability to learn at school. There is an interesting close relationship between water supply and sanitation. Any school that requires proper sanitation must have stable source of water. In this sense, one may regard water sources (like taps and wells) as examples of sanitation facilities. This can be agreed with the definition of sanitation by WHO, where it refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and faeces. Water availability is not a facility rather the structures (taps, wells e.t.c) that allows the availability and accessibility of this resource can be referred to as facilities of sanitation. These facilities are essential for proper sanitation in any secondary school. The provision of these facilities ensure accessibility of water and hence quality sanitation. This therefore means that for proper disposal of human urine and faeces there must be available and accessible water. This simple fact defines the strong relationship between water and sanitation.
The concept of distance decay as outlines by Getis et al, 2008 and location theory as pointe out by Alfred Weber, 1929 can be used to explain the intricate relationship between water and sanitation.
DISTANCE – DECAY CONCEPT
Distance Decay is experimental decline of an activity, function, or amount of interaction with increasing distance from the point of origin (Getis et al 1998). It explains the fact that there is a greater intensity (greater spatial interaction) in the use of facilities near the school area especially the distance between the water source and the school buildin...
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...ties (especially those that makes water available) and hygiene. Water is intimately linked with quality sanitation, proper education and gender equality. Girls who have to spend time gathering water for the family use are likely not to be in school so also, where schools have proper sanitation, attendance for girls is higher. Lack of appropriately private and sanitary facilities has a greater impact on girls than boys, which determines whether they ever attend and also influence how long they stay in school, that girls are more likely to enrol in schools –and stay enrolled – when they have a measure of protection and respect.
Understanding the intricate relationship between water and sanitation using the concept of distance decay and location theory and then applying these understanding will increase the number of girls in schools especially in Sub-Saharan Africa
Americans go to the sink knowing with a simple flip of the nosil, clean water will magically appear. It is often presumed that clean water is a given and it is never acknowledged that saving water in one country could evidently help another country's water...
One out of three schools in the world does not have safe water and good sanitation. It has been proven that the farther the children have to walk to get water, the less they will be educated. 160 million children in the world suffer from water-related diseases like diarrhea, stunting, and chronic malnutrition. If people could fix the global water crisis then children wouldn't get these water related diseases and they would have time to go to school (Cain).
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The consumption of contaminated water can be dangerous for health reasons and several people have passed away from these water-borne diseases. Some of these diseases include Cholera, Typhoid, Dysentery, Giardiasis, and Malaria. These unfortunate diseases are currently the cause of numerous deaths, especially in small children. The availability of clean water can prevent many problems in low-income communities. The available resources for clean water are very rare, so these water sources need to pass through a process of water sanitation in order to just be sustainable to drink, “The world’s surface is made up of approximately 80% water, which is an indestructible substance.
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Have you ever had to walk miles away just to get clean drinking water, or don’t even not have access to clean drinking water? People all over the world, even in North America, don’t have access to clean drinking water or have to walk very far just to drink water. The main areas where this problem is prominent is in third world countries, and this is due to the lack of money and sanitation (Millions Lack Safe Water). Due to this lack of sanitation, water borne diseases can grow and infect people who consume it. Clean water is very important for life, and within this paper I will explain why we need it, how it can affect us, and what it will take to obtain clean water.
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In developing countries, passing along technical information for maintaining pumps and sanitizing the local water supply will help not only relieve the burden of responsibility, but allow them to maintain a constant supply. Factories and cleaning facilities establish jobs and financial stability when in the right hands. Knowledge of finances and business will help establish revenue and economic stimulation, thus allowing for better technology for survival in the future. Technological innovations in developed and developing countries will allow war-torn states to have more access to water than previously known.... ...
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Another problem for people of Africa is clear access to clean water. Clean drinking water is very rare for the people of Africa. Unclean water and sanitation problem leads to many diseases in African countries. Main problem which occurs due to unclean water is child morality. Around 2000 children’s die from diarrhoea which spread due to poor sanitatio...
Less than 1% of the water supply on earth can be used as drinking water.
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