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Development efforts have been made to improve provision of
sanitation services by central and local governments, and household themselves. But
population growth is outstripping these. This slide shows coverage projected to the year
2000 for developing countries, by each major region and in total. In unserved areas faeces
are recycled for use in agriculture or deposited on land without prior destruction of
pathogens. Not surprisingly, infectious diseases such as diarrhoeal diseases,
schistosomiasis and hepatitis are endemic, and sometimes epidemic, in such areas. |
