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

ADB advocates that sanitation be an urgent priority for governments in Asia. It also invites public and private agencies to help governments, utilities, and communities accelerate actions to improve sanitation at all.

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.


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
Read or download sanitation related documents available at ADB Water website.



Date Events Materials
2009
2-4 DEC World Toilet Summit and Expo (Singapore)  
25 NOV Sanitation Publications Book Launch (Manila, Philippines)  
15-16 OCT Philippine Symposium on Sustainable Sanitation (Makati City, Philippines)  
7-11 SEP 6th CITYNET Congress (Yokohama, Japan)  
2 JUN Stakeholder Consultations on Draft Philippine National Sewerage and Septage Management Program-Luzon (Manila, Philippines)  
19 MAY Stakeholder Consultations on Draft Philippine National Sewerage and Septage Management Program-Mindanao (Davao City, Philippines)  
12 MAY Stakeholder Consultations on Draft Philippine National Sewerage and Septage Management Program-Visayas (Cebu City, Philippines)  
16-17 APR ADB-Viet Nam Sanitation Dialogue (Thanh Hoa, Viet Nam) Program and Materials
31 MAR – 2 APR WSP-EAP Economics of Sanitation Initiative Regional Workshop (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Program and Materials
Meeting Report [ PDF ]
3-5 MAR ADB-DMC Sanitation Dialogue (Manila, Philippines) Program and Materials
Highlights: Making Sanitation Everybody's Business [ PDF ]
2008
10 DEC Zero Diarrhea: Nationwide Search for Barangays with the Best Sanitation Practices (Manila, Philippines) List of Winners [PDF]
9-10 JUL 2nd Philippine National Sanitation Summit (Manila, Philippines ) Social Contract [PDF]
11 MAR Livable City Takes on Sanitation: ADB, Marikina Celebrate World Water Day (Manila, Philippines )  
2007
15-16 NOV International Seminar on Sanitation (Manila, Philippines) Aide Memoire [PDF]
12-18 AUG Stockholm World Water Week (Stockholm, Sweden) Dignity, Disease, Dollars: Asia’s Urgent Sanitation Challenge [PDF]



Amy Leung
Urban Development Specialist
E-Mail: aleung@adb.org

Hubert Jenny
Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist
Email: hjenny@adb.org

Anand Chiplunkar
Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist
Email: achiplunkar@adb.org


Asian Sanitation Data Book 2008ADB Water for All: Asian Sanitation Data Book 2008
A new publication presents raw data and analyses on the sanitation situation in 27 cities.




Making Sanitation Everybody’s Business
Reports the highlights of a dialogue on sanitation between ADB and representatives from its developing member countries (DMCs).
Australia: Dousing Drought with Recycled Water
Fighting drought for over a decade now, Melbourne residents have upped the ante when it comes to reusing their water.
Sanitation Actions. Read more stories in cities and communities.
Film: Coming Clean on Sanitation Featuring the sanitation landscapes of six Asian countries, this documentary aims to increase awareness on the region’s sanitation challenges.
CDROM: Smarter Sanitation
A toolkit that offers sanitation options and solutions, this CD includes a software for assessing and planning sanitation systems.
Photo Essay: Toilets of Asia
View images of Asia’s toilets through the decades, from outhouse waterless latrines to the modern indoor toilets with electronic contraptions.
Brief: Sanitation and Wastewater Management. Read about sanitation and wastewater management in Asia and the health, environmental, and economic gains they can bring.