A Sustainable Future to Water Sanitation
Over the past weeks, I have raised the issues of poor water quality, water privatisation, social innovations, colonisation and cholera, all key factors in understanding the improvement of access to clean water and sanitation. I have realised growing up with a flushable clean toilet, which I previously presumed a right I now know is most definitely a privilege we take for granted. This final blog will look at the Sustainable Development Goal exploring the future to Africa's water sanitation. I begin this exploration in a sustainable future by focusing on the MDG goal 7 - "To halve the population of the universal population without sustainable access to clean and safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015" ( MDGmointor, 2016 ). The MDG has received much criticism for not meeting this proposed target in a time of the proposed deadline. In a review by Weststrate et al., 2018 the study exposed that the indicat...
