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Improved versus unimproved sanitation

A good toilet provides a healthy, safe and dignified place for people to relieve themselves, as well as an environmentally sound method of waste disposal. The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) (UNICEF and World Health Organization [WHO] 2017) identifies five categories on a “best to worst” ladder of sanitation service – with ‘safely managed’ at the top and ‘open defecation’ on the lowest rung as figure shows.

Year: 2020

From collection: Sanitation and Wastewater Atlas of Africa - Human Health

Cartographer: GRID-Arendal

Tags: Africa sanitation wastewater

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