Global Sigma Tech proposes to create 3,500 Sanitation Stations in Ghana
In the developing world, 2.5 billion people practice open defecation or lack adequate sanitation facilities; an additional 2.1 billion urban residents use facilities that do not safely dispose of human waste.
The Gates Foundation states:
The need for better sanitation in the developing world is clear. Forty percent of the world’s population—2.5 billion people—practice open defecation or lack adequate sanitation facilities, and the consequences can be devastating for human health as well as the environment. Even in urban areas, where household and communal toilets are more prevalent, over 2 billion people use toilets connected to septic tanks that are not safely emptied or use other systems that discharge raw sewage into open drains or surface waters.
Health Risks
Poor sanitation contributes to about 700,000 child deaths from diarrhea each year. Chronic diarrhea can hinder child development by impeding the absorption of essential nutrients and reducing the effectiveness of life-saving vaccines.
Creating sanitation infrastructure and public services that work for everyone and that keep waste out of the environment is a major challenge. Global Sigma Tech is a potential partner to help build these needed Sanitation Stations. Utilizing the unique qualities of the SigmaCrete™ product line to develop and build the structures.
