POOR SANITATION COSTS UGANDA 389BILLION EACH YEAR

A new report released by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)., Economic Impacts of Poor Sanitation in Africa - Uganda, has found that Uganda’s economy loses 389 billion Ugandan shillings (US$177 million, 1.1 percent of GDP) each year due to poor sanitation, according to a new report today released by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP).
The desk study found that the majority (84 percent) of these costs come from the annual premature death of 23,000 Ugandans from diarrheal disease, including 19,700 children under the age of 5, nearly 90 percent of which is directly attributable to poor water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Health-related costs accounted for 12 percent of the total economic costs, while access time and productivity losses accounted for about 4.1 percent.