Forced To Open Defecation: Woes From Anaheim, California

The trouble of safe sanitation is not confined to the developing world only. The so-called developed nation USA has a town, Anahiem, in California, where citizens are being regressed to go back to open defecation.

The sole mistake of these vulnerable citizens- is their homelessness.

Interestingly, the cause of this plight of the common poor is not a lack of technology or resources but a lack of community goodwill in the leadership and implementation bodies.

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Despite the social help groups having constructed the toilets, they were removed on the pretext of being unauthorized.

The result is that thousands of women, men, and sick children living in tent encampments are being forced to defecate either in buckets or in the bushes.

The shocker in this scenario is that the city administration does not appear to be taking lessons from a recent outbreak of Hepatitis A in San Diego that killed numerous people.

The immediate solution is to reinstate community toilets that take up minimal space and understand the vitality of the trouble.

Somehow or the other, we again have to realize that before the disaster, else the human costs of negligence would be massive.