poor sanitation
Lack of cleanliness
Poor sanitation refers to inadequate systems for managing human waste, sewage, and garbage.
It encompasses lack of clean toilets, unsafe drinking water, and improper disposal of refuse.
Poor sanitation spreads disease—cholera, typhoid, dysentery—and remains a leading cause of preventable death in developing regions: Poor sanitation kills more people than wars.
- raw sewageUnprocessed drainage waste
- sewageLiquid refuse in drains
- filthFoul, accumulated matter
- diseaseDisorder impairing normal function
- contaminationIntroduction of impurities
dirty water · dirty · waste · cholera · bacteria · latrine · foul smell · flies · stench · polluted · standing water · unclean · typhoid · dysentery · garbage · pit toilet · drainage · infection
- Global Povertymalnutrition, starvation, food security, clean water, dirty water
- povertydestitution, penniless, needy, destitute, indigent
- choleracholera vaccine, diarrhea, rehydration, waterborne disease, contaminated water
- rural declinedepopulation, rural exodus, brain drain, outmigration, dying towns
- slumsslum, slums, shanty, shanties, shack
- fecal-oral diseasescholera, typhoid, norovirus, rotavirus, shigellosis
poor sanitationclean water access
Availability of uncontaminated drinking supply
sanitary conditions · safe water · potable water · sewage treatment · waste management
poor sanitationpublic health
Community-level disease prevention
disease prevention · health security · epidemic control · potable water supply · safe environment
poor, poorly, poorer, poorest, poorness, impoverish, impoverished, impoverishment, poverty