Zero Open Defecation Program News Today

Dagupan faces significant vulnerabilities from perennial flooding, evolving new threats to water security, and lack of waste or sewage treatment infrastructure.

SunStar December 10, 2020 TODAY, I weigh in on a most disgusting topic, a problem that stinks literally and metaphorically to high heavens for a definitive solution. According to 2008 UN figures, roughly 19 million Filipinos defecate in the open, like unto a water body, behind bushes or into the hole in the ground of an outhouse. Recently in 2020, however, a news item bemoaned that an estimated 50 million Filipinos, to use a euphemism, do not have access to sanitary toilets. It’s...