What Does Cambodia use for Water source?
Also, What is the Shelter, Heath Care, Medicene, and Sanitary Conditions, also the living condtions in Cambodia? im doing a report and its due 2morrow, and i need info about those 6 topics! PLZ and Thank You!! p.s. plz no bad feedback, thxs! :-)
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Ceramic filter pilot projects (2002-2006) in Cambodia have yielded promising results that suggest these interventions can be effective in improving drinking water quality and can contribute to substantial health gains in populations using them. " The WATER POINT COMMITTEE " Provide safe drinking water source through Water Point Committee - Hand pump wells will be constructed where the ground water source is available by facilitate people to form Water Point Committee (5 member, 2 are female).This committee is responsible for collecting people contribution both in kind and in cash. Cash amount $70.00 will be collected from the water user group who will use water from the hand pump well for future hand pump maintenance. This money will be kept by the WPC in the village. One hand pump well can give water to 35-40 families (175-200 people). WPC members will be trained on hand pump maintenance and book keeping. In addition to that people will contribute sand and stone for well’s platform construction if those material are available in the village. " DISEASES " These problems range from malaria, diarrhoea, acute respiratory infections, tuberculosis and intestinal parasites -- illnesses curable in this day and age. Water related diseases are caused by unsafe drinking water and improper waste disposal and it has an immediately impact on peoples’ life especially for the children under 5 years old. In Cambodia based on the study of WHO, 2003 child mortality is 153 per 1,000 for males and 127 for females, which is one of the highest rates in 27 countries and percentage of total life expectancy lost is 12.1 for males and 13.3 for females. " SANITARY CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING..........SLOWLY" Sanitation practices in rural Cambodia are often primitive. The water supply is the main problem; rivers and streams are common sources of drinking water and of water for cooking. These water sources are often the same ones used for bathing, washing clothes, and disposing of waste products. Adequate sewage disposal is nonexistent in most rural and suburban areas. Sanitary conditions in the largest urban areas--Phnom Penh, Batdambang city, and Kampong Cham city--were much improved over the conditions in the rural areas, however. By the early 1970s, Phnom Penh had three water purification plants, which were adequate for the peacetime population but could not provide safe water when the city's population increased significantly in the mid-1970s. The city had regular garbage collection, and sewage was usually disposed of in septic tanks. " A HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM WITH PROBLEMS " In addition to inadequate infrastructure and equipment, Cambodia faces a serious shortage of trained health personnel, as many were killed or had fled during the Pol Pot regime. On top of this, extremely low salaries adversely affect staff morale and receptivity to supervision. Government health workers, like other civil servants, earn very little: a nurse earns about KR30,000 (US$8) a month and a doctor KR40,000 (US$10). " MEDICINES" According to traditional Cambodian beliefs, disease may be caused by some underlying spiritual cause. Evil spirits or "bad air" are believed to cause many diseases and can be expelled from the body of a sick person by trained practitioners, who may be traditional healers--bonzes, former bonzes, herbalists, or folk healers . They discarded Western medicine, with the result that while hundreds of thousands died from starvation and disease there were almost no drugs in the country. International aid produced more medicine after 1979, and there was a flourishing black market in medicines, especially antibiotics, at exorbitant prices. Three small pharmaceutical factories in Phnom Penh in 1983 produced about ten tons of pharmaceuticals. Tetracycline and ampicillin were being produced in limited amounts in Phnom Penh, according to 1985 reports. The PRK government emphasized traditional medicine to cover the gap in its knowledge of modern medical technologies. Each health center on the province, district, and subdistrict level had a kru (teacher), specializing in traditional herbal remedies, attached to it. An inventory of medicinal plants was being conducted in each province in the late 1980s. " SHELTERS " Ung Chanthol, 39, is director of the Cambodian Women’s Crisis Center in Phnom Penh, launched in 1997 to help women victims of rape, domestic violence, and the sex trade. Her organization currently offers shelters, vocational training, and assistance to around 2,000 women victimized by violence every year. "A New Day, Inc." is a non-profit organization helping Cambodia's garbage dump scavenger children. Bill Smith, the leader of this organization, says " We were proud of our efforts, but we dreamed about raising enough money to help these and other children by opening a facility that would serve as a children’s shelter/center. There the sponsored children would be able to live while they attended their new schools. The center would provide a clean, safe environment with three meals a day, clean water, bathrooms and a well-lit place to study their lessons. "
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Water source for drinking? That is called potable water, and the availability of potable water in places like cambodia is very problematic. Although numerous rivers and lakes exist, these waters are not clean and free of germs, so they are not drinkable. Most people in Cambodia drink bottled water.
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