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Global Sanitation Issues

Sanitation access linked to children's growth and health. An estimated 1 billion people in the world live without access to any type of sanitation facility, such as a toilet or latrine. Sanitation access is known to be associated with the risk of transmitting certain diseases, including parasitic worms. But the impacts don't stop there. For children, living in a community with poor levels of sanitation access increases their odds of stunted growth, anemia, and diarrhea, even if their household has access to a sanitation facility. Source 5q.

Issues Sanitation Global

Diseases can be contained and less people affected if governments put more effort into teaching and facilitating sanitary procedures instead of focusing on their military and corruption.

Global Sanitation Issues Health & Special Psychology

Magnus,

You are correct, but then all nations would have to do the same. No country is just going to start investing in sanitation and training and cut defense spending, thus becoming vulnerable, unless they believe their competitors are doing the same thing. That ugly, but that is how the world we live in works.