Adverse impacts of pit latrines on environment have became the facing issues of citizens of the Ulaanbaatar city.
Forum on "Sanitary facilities - Pit latrines" was held today in Ulaanbaatar city.
Members of Parliament, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Deputy Minister of Health, scientists and researchers have attended the forum and discussed the current situation, implementation and further policy of pit latrines.
MP D.Garamjav noted at the opening speech: "Soil pollution is one of the facing issues in Ulaanbaatar city. Therefore, we are organizing the forum, attending affiliated ministries, professional organizations. According to the study, 90 percent of soil pollution of the Ulaanbaatar city contains substances that harmful to health. Thus, we need to improve the needs of pit latrines".
According to the 2015 statistics, total of 376 thousands of households live in Ulaanbaatar city, of which 157 thousands of households live in apartments and the remaining 218 thousands of households live in ger districts, which use over 100 thousands of pit latrines. About 80 percent of pit latrines are not meet the standard requirements.
A person average approximately 200 grams of poop and 1.2 liters of urine per day, according to the World Health Organization. If one household has four people, they eliminate 720 grams of poop and 4.3 liters of urine per day. Thus, around 1 million liters of feces pollute the soil through the pit latrines everyday.
Intestinal infectious diseases took 9.9 percent of infectious diseases caused by microbial contamination of soil while 84.1 percent of hand-foot-and-mouth disease was registered in Ulaanbaatar city.
Sulfur and ammonia produced from pit toilet belong to a category of toxic gases and stand 4th in toxicity ranking. Ammonia is harmful to human health, affects fetus and causes birth defects. Also, it causes infertility.
Following is the reasons for why there is no progress on pit toilet:
- Non-implementation of urban planning
- Lack of engineering infrastructure
- People`s attitude towards environment hygiene is weak
- Lack of information to citizens about health and sanitary facilities
- Expensive technologies
Moreover, MP D.Garamjav thanked to the World Vision, The UN Children's Fund, Asian Development Bank and Mobicom corporation for contributing to the improvement on sanitary facilities of local kindergartens and schools.
Adverse impacts of pit latrines on environment have became the facing issues of citizens of the Ulaanbaatar city.
Forum on "Sanitary facilities - Pit latrines" was held today in Ulaanbaatar city.
Members of Parliament, Minister of Environment and Tourism, Deputy Minister of Health, scientists and researchers have attended the forum and discussed the current situation, implementation and further policy of pit latrines.
MP D.Garamjav noted at the opening speech: "Soil pollution is one of the facing issues in Ulaanbaatar city. Therefore, we are organizing the forum, attending affiliated ministries, professional organizations. According to the study, 90 percent of soil pollution of the Ulaanbaatar city contains substances that harmful to health. Thus, we need to improve the needs of pit latrines".
According to the 2015 statistics, total of 376 thousands of households live in Ulaanbaatar city, of which 157 thousands of households live in apartments and the remaining 218 thousands of households live in ger districts, which use over 100 thousands of pit latrines. About 80 percent of pit latrines are not meet the standard requirements.
A person average approximately 200 grams of poop and 1.2 liters of urine per day, according to the World Health Organization. If one household has four people, they eliminate 720 grams of poop and 4.3 liters of urine per day. Thus, around 1 million liters of feces pollute the soil through the pit latrines everyday.
Intestinal infectious diseases took 9.9 percent of infectious diseases caused by microbial contamination of soil while 84.1 percent of hand-foot-and-mouth disease was registered in Ulaanbaatar city.
Sulfur and ammonia produced from pit toilet belong to a category of toxic gases and stand 4th in toxicity ranking. Ammonia is harmful to human health, affects fetus and causes birth defects. Also, it causes infertility.
Following is the reasons for why there is no progress on pit toilet:
- Non-implementation of urban planning
- Lack of engineering infrastructure
- People`s attitude towards environment hygiene is weak
- Lack of information to citizens about health and sanitary facilities
- Expensive technologies
Moreover, MP D.Garamjav thanked to the World Vision, The UN Children's Fund, Asian Development Bank and Mobicom corporation for contributing to the improvement on sanitary facilities of local kindergartens and schools.