Over 4,000 children die everyday due to poor sanitation

Communication officer of the bank Chrishtopher M. Walsh said that most of the fatalities are in developing countries.

"Today, about 4,000 children die everyday because of improver access on water and sanitation," he said at the workshop on Evidence-Based Advocacy for Millennium Development Goals held by the bank.

"Most of them are in developing countries, Africa, East Asia, South Asia and Latin America,"said Walsh.

In Indonesia, over 50,000 children under five die every year of diarrhea, due to water related diseases, the bank communication officer for sanitation for Southeast Asia, Yosa Yuliarsa said.

Although there is progress on the people access to water and implementation of sanitation, there are still over 2.6 billion people in the world still do not have access on water and sanitation, said Walsh.

"I mean even though there is progress there is still along way to go," he said.

The officer said that the main challenge is now how to turn this situation around to help achieve the target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); Kazinform cites China Daily.

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