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Dignity, disease and dollars: Asia's urgent sanitation challenge (pdf 970kb)

The Asian Development Bank document is a call to action to focus attention on water sanitation which include:

- Better facilities for individuals so they can regain their dignity
- Disease prevention and healthy environmental outcomes for the wider community
- Financial viability of sanitation services for provider governments and utilities, together with affordability for households.

 

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