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Dignity, Disease, and Dollars
Asia’s Urgent Sanitation Challenge

The Asian Development Bank advocates that sanitation be an urgent priority for governments in Asia.

ADB also invites other agencies—public and private—to help governments, utilities, and communities make sanitation a priority and accelerate actions that will achieve better sanitation results.

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Toilets of Asia: From Crude to Improved
Many of Asia's more developed countries now have state-of-the-art toilets, but it wasn't long ago that defecating in the open was the thing to do. View images of Asia's toilets in the past decades.

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BETTER SANITATION RESULTS

ADB’s call to action—“Dignity, Disease, and Dollars”—has been chosen deliberately to focus attention on three areas where stakeholders need to see results:

Better facilities for individuals so they can regain their dignity
Disease prevention and healthy environment for the wider community
Financial viability of sanitation services for provider governments and utilities in tandem with affordability for households.

Download the Discussion Note: Dignity, Disease, and Dollars—Asia's Urgent Sanitation Challenge.

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BASIC INFORMATION

	Sanitation: Why Invest? Find out some basic truths about sanitation and what countries have done to improve their sanitation situation.
	ADB’s Sanitation Agenda Find out how ADB plans to provide 200 million Asians with sustainable access to improved sanitation.
	References Type "sanitation" in the title/keyword box and search through the sanitation document available at the ADB water web site.