Name: 【TED】Francis de los Reyes: Sanitation is a basic human right (Francis de los Reyes: Sanitation is a basic human right)
Uploaded: 2014-12-10T07:52:11.000Z
Duration: 8 min 26 s
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through these wastewater treatment plants,

these treatment plants so that we can protect

on using leading-edge molecular techniques,

to look at microbial populations in biological reactors,

I have developed an unhealthy obsession with toilets,

and I've been known to sneak into toilets

but there's also this thing called the culture of crap.

for anal cleansing. That's the technical term.

There are 2.5 billion people in the world

who don't have access to adequate sanitation.

and again, the technical term for that is

and it's surrounding you, you're going to get sick.

It's going to get into your drinking water,

into your food, into your immediate surroundings.

that every year, there are 
1.5 million child deaths

That's one preventable death every 20 seconds,

build infrastructure, for example, like pit latrines,

For example, in KwaZulu-Natal 
province in South Africa,

they've built tens of thousands of these pit latrines.

to tens of thousands, and the problem is,

In schools, children defecate on the floors

and then leave a trail outside the building

and start defecating around the building,

who have to sometimes go down into the pits

As you can see, there's no protective equipment,

and they're further condemned by society.

So you ask yourself, how can we solve this

and why don't we just build Western-style flush toilets

And the answer is, it's just not possible.

In some of these areas, there's not enough water,

it's going to cost tens of trillions of dollars