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WATER SANITATION AND HYGIENE
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Water sanitation and hygiene
The topic I am going to deal with is water sanitation and hygiene which is normally referred to as WaSH or Watsan. This has been a key health issue that involves the public. The availability or accessibility of sustainable Watsan has been an issue of concern for quite some time now. According to reports collected from several international agencies that deal with development, water sanitation and hygiene is tied up to a lot more things than people can fathom, (Mbuya, & Humphrey, 2016). They say that with Watsan, a person’s health can improve, students can learn better, there can be a better sense of gender equality and it can even boost life expectancy.
Moreover, Watsan can bring about a lot of international developments. Accessible wash not only means having access to the things you need but also to the education of the importance of water sanitation and hygiene. The most essential things are adequate sanitation and clean drinking and using water. Having these three things can help a lot in boosting socio-economic development. It can also help to reduce the number of ill people that get affected by poor sanitation and hygiene and can also help in poverty eradication.
The issue
According to the world health organization research that was done in 2015, out of every three people, one of them does not have access to sanitation facilities, (World Health Organization. 2017). This sums up to 2.4 billion people in the world. The number of people that have no access to clean water is around 663 million persons. This is alarming because the number does not reduce if anything it only increases. Recent research shows that the number of people without safe drinking water is around eight hundred and eighty for million and the number will continue to be bothersome if it is not addressed well. For sanitation, people need things like soap and sanitizers to clean their handles.
These are the basic things. Toilet rolls and real toilets. Things like flying toilets are the main reasons people suffer from cholera and other diseases caused by dirt. The other thing is that a very large number of girls lack access to sanitary towels. This means that dealing with their menstruation becomes very difficult for them, (Hutton, & Varughese, 2016). Considering poverty levels, some families cannot afford to purchase some of these hygienic requirements which expose them and their children very high risks of getting ill. Another thing is that even the latrines that are available are shared by a lot of people which means that being infected by a disease someone else has become inevitable.
Associated problems
In almost all developing countries, 700,000 children lose their lives every year because of diarrhea. This is mostly contributed by a lack of sanitation. Those children that .
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1. Running head: WATER SANITATION AND HYGIENE 1
WATER SANITATION AND HYGIENE 5
WATER SANITATION AND HYGIENE
Student’s name
Institutional affiliation
Course
Date
Water sanitation and hygiene
The topic I am going to deal with is water sanitation and
hygiene which is normally referred to as WaSH or Watsan. This
has been a key health issue that involves the public. The
availability or accessibility of sustainable Watsan has been an
issue of concern for quite some time now. According to reports
collected from several international agencies that deal with
development, water sanitation and hygiene is tied up to a lot
more things than people can fathom, (Mbuya, & Humphrey,
2016). They say that with Watsan, a person’s health can
improve, students can learn better, there can be a better sense of
gender equality and it can even boost life expectancy.
Moreover, Watsan can bring about a lot of international
developments. Accessible wash not only means having access to
the things you need but also to the education of the importance
of water sanitation and hygiene. The most essential things are
2. adequate sanitation and clean drinking and using water. Having
these three things can help a lot in boosting socio-economic
development. It can also help to reduce the number of ill people
that get affected by poor sanitation and hygiene and can also
help in poverty eradication.
The issue
According to the world health organization research that was
done in 2015, out of every three people, one of them does not
have access to sanitation facilities, (World Health Organization.
2017). This sums up to 2.4 billion people in the world. The
number of people that have no access to clean water is around
663 million persons. This is alarming because the number does
not reduce if anything it only increases. Recent research shows
that the number of people without safe drinking water is around
eight hundred and eighty for million and the number will
continue to be bothersome if it is not addressed well. For
sanitation, people need things like soap and sanitizers to clean
their handles.
These are the basic things. Toilet rolls and real toilets. Things
like flying toilets are the main reasons people suffer from
cholera and other diseases caused by dirt. The other thing is that
a very large number of girls lack access to sanitary towels. This
means that dealing with their menstruation becomes very
difficult for them, (Hutton, & Varughese, 2016). Considering
poverty levels, some families cannot afford to purchase some of
these hygienic requirements which expose them and their
children very high risks of getting ill. Another thing is that even
the latrines that are available are shared by a lot of people
which means that being infected by a disease someone else has
become inevitable.
Associated problems
In almost all developing countries, 700,000 children lose their
lives every year because of diarrhea. This is mostly contributed
by a lack of sanitation. Those children that survive the chronic
diarrhea end up having physical challenges and issues with their
childhood development. It is also the reason as to why so many
3. people with low living standards suffer from cholera and
typhoid, (Fuller, & Eisenberg, 2016). Typhoid especially, which
is associated with drinking unclean water has been the reason
behind the deaths of very many people with low living
standards.
Bearing in mind that most of them cannot even afford good
medication, they end up dying and leaving their children to
struggle which continues the chain of poverty. The other thing
is that it hinders learning. When students are suffering from
these hygiene-related illnesses it becomes very hard for them to
go to school. They are forced to stay at home to even prevent
themselves from infecting the rest of the students which makes
them lag. Suffering from hygiene-related illnesses also reduces
people’s productivity which affects the country’s economy. In
addition, any woman that is on their periods is forced to go
through a lot of struggles and stress trying to manage their
menstruation.
Previous attempts to examine the issue
This is an issue that has been addressed by many organizations
including the world health organization. It was concluded that it
is an issue that has been affecting most developing counties and
that the main reason is poor living standards which make them
unable to afford any kind of remedies, (Roche, Bain, &
Cumming, 2017). The organizations came up with sustainable
development goals that they hoped to achieve after taking it
upon them to supply people with all the required amenities. The
first of all held campaigns to educate people on the importance
of making safe water and maintaining good hygiene. They then
started urging people to build real and more toilets that will
help reduce the cases of flying toilets. In other places, they
introduced portable toilets.
Furthermore, they taught people about the Importance of
washing their hands after coming from the washroom and before
eating anything. For those people living in places with dirty
drinking water, the organizations provided them with water
purifiers where people would put their water and get it clean.
4. They also set up hospitals to deal with people already suffering
from sanitation and hygiene illnesses and lastly, they started
distributing sanitary towels to schools, (Cumming, &
Cairncross, 2016). The plan has been ongoing but due to
corruption by leaders and inadequate resources, not a lot of
people have been reached by the aid.
References
Cumming, O., & Cairncross, S. (2016). Can water, sanitation
and hygiene help eliminate stunting? Current evidence and
policy implications. Maternal & child nutrition, 12, 91-105.
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Fuller, J. A., & Eisenberg, J. N. (2016). Herd protection from
drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions. The
American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 95(5),
1201-1210. Retrieved from:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5300760/
Hutton, G., & Varughese, M. (2016). The costs of meeting the
2030 sustainable development goal targets on drinking water,
sanitation, and hygiene. The World Bank. Retrieved from:
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Mbuya, M. N., & Humphrey, J. H. (2016). Preventing
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Roche, R., Bain, R., & Cumming, O. (2017). A long way to go–
Estimates of combined water, sanitation and hygiene coverage
for 25 sub-Saharan African countries. PloS one, 12(2).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5300760/
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practices and technologies for the analysis, integration,
collection together with business information presentation. The
incorporation of the practice with basic business activities leads
to the creation of better support systems that facilitates the
company to be highly successful within the company. The
relevance of business intelligence within a company is an
essential practice that positively reflects on the interest of the
employees and employers within the company. This is a practice
that that requires a broader understanding on how it can be
integrated to facilitate the company success. The paper entails a
detailed discussion on importance business intelligence to a
company.
Business Intelligence Tools and Systems
Understanding the basic BI systems and tools enables one
to understand the relevance that the practice plays within a
company. There are different forms of tools that are part of the
BI umbrella. The process of software selections leads to the
breaking down of important parts of the BI for them to be fully
understood and implemented within a company. Some of the
basic features involved with the practice entails visualizations,
dashboards, reporting, datamining and online analytical
processing (Geiger, 2015). The application of visualizations and
dashboards are the ones are most popular among users. The
provide easy to digest and quick solution-based practices that
facilitates the company to be highly successful in its initiatives.
The major players in the use of BI entails tableau, Splunk,
Alteryx. Qlik, Domo and Birst. The correct applications of the
software make them a success.
A company that adopts business intelligence is likely to
experience competitive advantage that facilitates the company
to be effective in goal setting and other relevant practices. it
provides a positive reflection on the creation of a better
decision-making structure. The management would be guided by
accurate and reliable information that influences positive on the
7. management. It plays an important role in the transforming of
data into key business insights within the company. Through it,
leverages in services and software is provided. They lead into
the transformation of the data into insights that leads the
company to make important business decisions that needs to be
broadly conceptualized with respect to the fields that concerns
the general well-being of the company (Jafari & Asgarnajafi,
2017). Therefore, the application of Business Intelligence leads
to informed decisions that positively affects the business
activities.
Business Intelligence Strategy
The intelligence strategy applied BI is a basic practice that
creates its relevance it its perfectly implemented within a
company. For a long period, IT professionals have been the
users of basic BI applications. The recent advancement has
enabled the businesses to be user friendly as they focus on the
long-term outcomes that is expected from the practice. This
facilitates the companies to be clearly applicable among most
companies making employees to have an easy time adopting
with the practice (On, 2016). The BI enables the business to
positively interact with intuitive systems and are agile and able
to analyze data in a positive way. IT professionals work at
ensuring that they positively integrate business practices that
reflects the positive results involved with the management of
businesses which is a basic practice within the company.
Understanding self-service business intelligence is a
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the real interest of the company. Self service is a key practice
of BI that leads to the generation of positive reports within the
company. Self-service are BI tools that facilitates company to
merge internal data reports to be readily available for the
managers and the non-technical staff. This is a practice that has
proven to be fully effective once the companies take the
initiative of fully integrating BI with the company (Dzwigol-
Barosz, 2017). It gives allowance for the users to readily
transfer information and easily interpret them through the use of
8. appropriate business tools that represents the real interest of the
company (Jafari & Asgarnajafi, 2017). The top management of
the company plays a key role in ensuring that the initiative is a
success by implementing the correct tools that facilitates BI to
be a success.
Trends in Business Intelligence
A look at the basic trends in business intelligence explains
its relevance within a company. Companies view the contents
and data that needs to be broadly considered on various aspects
in the management of information within the company. The
application of integrated enterprise approach is a key practice
that needs to be perfect applied. Enterprise data management
merge BI and enterprise content management (Hobek,
Ariyachandra & Frolick, 2016). These are basic practices that
gives a positive reflection on basic company activities that
reflects the real interest of the market. The application of the
top pyramid which is an essential material that facilitates it to
be quite efficient in the creation of positive business practice
within the company. Ideally, the trends make BI more reliable
and effectual if perfectly applied.
Bi is for everyone, Nowadays IT or information analysis is used
by BI. Data analysts could be the product info manager for
improving the business line. It is used to simplify the data sets,
visualizations and sharing reports. BI integrates data analysis
which the case depends upon the users. The self -service
Analytics predict within two years; most business users will
access the self -service portal to prepare the data analysis. By
using this self-service portals data consumer can use active data
analysts to reduce the time and complexity of data. Static
reports will give an exact analysis between users to explore the
updated data in real-time. This helps decision-makers to
monitor the data with an accurate form. Data integration helps
us increase data volume and speed is a trend towards
comprehensive BI solutions. BI gives access to business users
across the organization easy to use.it can be access to power Bi
visualization tools to communicate with social media and
9. understand the view from social media. Bi can use mobile
devices for better analytics, workers can now access and
analyses data from their mobile devices. I enable you to get
access and modify your own dashboards. whether it may be IOS,
Windows, android. Using Bi app to connect to your data, easily
data alerts and share with the team. Corporates are increasing
more cloud computing, its like third tool which can be used for
everyone as storage external storage for calibrate the data.
Platforms will merge and develop the systems. Each with
different skills, roles, extensions, algorithms and intelligent
agents will having more complexity.
Benefits of Business Intelligence
A look at the relevance of BI tools to a company and basic
business operations is a basic tool of concern that needs to be
perfectly conceptualized in this case. They provide predictive,
historic and current views about the basic business operations
with a company. BI applies the gathered data into an existing
data warehouse that that facilitates working with operational
data. The existence of the software elements promotes the
existence of pivotal tables that facilitates a better understanding
of basic business procedures that reflects the positive interest of
the company in a positive way. It gives the basic applications
that facilitates in the management of financial, production and
sales which is a positive business practice that leads to an
increase in the general productivity of a company within the
industrial domain (Jafari & Asgarnajafi, 2017). Therefore, the
adoption of BI is beneficial for a company.
The application of business practices leads to the creation
of positive appeals that functions for the interest of the
company. One of the key advantages associated with the
practice entails faster reporting, planning and analysis within a
company. It ensures that the management that is presented with
the information that represents the interest of the people in a
positive way. The application of BI enables the management to
practice accurate reporting which is an essential practice that
makes BI popular (Herschel & Jones, 2015). The reliable
10. information provided through BI makes the analysis easier to
understand and apply based on the fact that it reflects on the
interest of the community in a positive way. Ideally, these are
the practice that leads to the creation of better business
decisions that enables the company to be fully effective on the
success of the business practices.
BI leads to improved data quality. The process involved in
the collection of information is a practice that focuses on the
interest of the community in a positive way. The process
functions at improved employee satisfaction as they are clearly
provided with all the necessity that leads to motivation and
improved productivity within the company. It is common to
observe improved rates of customer satisfaction (Bottles, 2017).
This is triggered by the informed decisions that leads to the
creation of an organized scheduled that focuses on the positive
interest of the community in a positive way. The increased rate
of competitive advantage for the company is a key practice that
needs to be widely embraced. Ideally, the positive interest of
the community is based practices that comes with the
implementation of the BI which is an essential factor of
concern.
Conclusion
In summary, the paper entails a detailed discussion on
importance business intelligence to a company. Understanding
the basic BI systems and tools enables one to understand the
relevance that the practice plays within a company. There are
different forms of tools that are part of the BI umbrella. The
process of software selections leads to the breaking down of
important parts of the BI for them to be fully understood and
implemented within a company. The application of business
practices leads to the creation of positive appeals that functions
for the interest of the company. One of the key advantages
associated with the practice entails faster reporting, planning
and analysis within a company. Understanding self-service
business intelligence is a practice that comes with complicated
11. measures that reflects on the real interest of the company. Self-
service is a key practice of BI that leads to the generation of
positive reports within the company.
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