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Bog-standard sanitation still blights lives of 2.4bn people

by Our Foreign Desk

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) and Unicef have warned that at least 2.4 billion people have seen no improvement in sanitation despite millennium targets set in 2000.

The United Nations agencies said on Tuesday that over 946 million people were still relieving themselves outdoors, the vast majority of them being poor inhabitants of rural areas.

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