adequate sanitation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadequateandsanitation
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adequate
adjective
uk/ˈæd.ə.kwət/us/ˈæd.ə.kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a ...
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sanitation
noun[U]
uk/ˌsæn.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌsæn.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
the systems for taking dirty water and other waste products away from buildings in order to protect ...
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(Definition ofadequateandsanitationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Similarly, 75 per cent of the urban population and less than 30 per cent of the rural population are served withadequatesanitationor waste collection and disposal facilities.
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The pro-baladiyya petitioners suggest that only a baladiyya can bring order to the chaotic condition of the streets and provideadequatesanitationfor a growing population.
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At the world summit, we got international agreement to tough new targets to halve the proportion of people without access toadequatesanitationby 2015.
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The schools which are withoutadequatesanitation, with the old earth closet, are largely in the rural areas.
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There is noadequatesanitation, schooling or health provision.
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Many diseases today are still caused by a lack of clean water and of proper,adequatesanitation.
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As my noble friend said, some 2.4 billion people—40 per cent of the world's population—do not have access toadequatesanitation.
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Some 3,000 million people still live withoutadequatesanitation.
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Until recently none of these houses had running water oradequatesanitation.
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We live in a world where over 1 billion people lack access to safe water, 2.4 billion lackadequatesanitation, and a similar number have no electricity in their homes.
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More than 2.4 billion people have no proper access toadequatesanitation, resulting in the yearly deaths of up to 3 million people, mostly children under five.
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The whole point of having standards is to ensure that there isadequatesanitation, water supply, safe storage, fire protections, lighting, safety on the stairs, and such considerations.
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Permission can naturally be given only where there isadequatesanitation, and where we are satisfied that the caravans will not be a nuisance to other families on the station.
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There is noadequatesanitationin prisons, and people are locked up for many hours of the day without any privacy or facilities for the normal functions of life.
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If all that labour is being devoted to shipbuilding, it ought to be possible to provide houses on the riverside which containadequatesanitationand so on.
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In 2008, only 17% of the population had access toadequatesanitationfacilities.
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Around the world, 884 million people do not have access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion are withoutadequatesanitationfacilities.
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Those who have neither access toadequatesanitationnor defecate in the open use shared or unimproved latrines.
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As shown above, in urban areas 97% of the population is estimated to have access to improved water supply and 85% toadequatesanitation.
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