Zimbabwe – Rural Sanitation Coverage Declines

Zimbabwe’s rural sanitation coverage has declined to 30 percent in the last eight years because of Cyclone Eline and the successive droughts that eroded households’ economic capacity, a Cabinet minister has said.

Officially launching the International Year of Sanitation 2008 in Harare yesterday, the Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr David Parirenyatwa, said Cyclone Eline destroyed ablution infrastructure in rural areas.

Read More – The Herald / allAfrica, 15 Feb 2008