Asian Bank Seeks Sanitation Partners at World Water Week
This Environmental News Service story features comments from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on sanitation issues leading up to the World Water Week conference in Stockholm starting August 12. Bank officials say two-thirds of the Asian population don’t have access to proper sanitation (toilets, septic tanks), and wants to find partners to increase its $1.6 billion investment in the issue between now and 2010.
“The financial cost of cleaning a river once it is already polluted with industrial waste or sewage is far higher than the cost of building the infrastructure needed to dispose of the pollutants properly, bank officials say.”
Four of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals focus on clean water and/or sanitation, including the health of children and combating HIV/AIDS.
