Sanitation
noun
The methods used to keep places clean and healthy to live in, especially by removing human waste and trash.
The poor sanitation in the city has led to an outbreak of diseases.
Often appears as...
- public sanitation
- poor sanitation
noun
The equipment or devices such as toilets, septic tanks, or sewerage pipes, used in the process of keeping places clean and removing waste.
The building's sanitation system needs to be upgraded to meet the new environmental standards.
Often appears as...
- sanitation system
- sanitation infrastructure
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Technical
noun
The process of making something free from bacteria or disease by cleaning it thoroughly.
The hospital has a strict sanitation procedure to prevent the spread of infections.
Often appears as...
- sanitation procedure
- sanitation practice
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Formal
Academic
noun
The methods used to keep places clean and healthy to live in, especially by removing human waste and trash.
The poor sanitation in the city has led to an outbreak of diseases.
Often appears as...
- public sanitation
- poor sanitation
noun
The equipment or devices such as toilets, septic tanks, or sewerage pipes, used in the process of keeping places clean and removing waste.
The building's sanitation system needs to be upgraded to meet the new environmental standards.
Often appears as...
- sanitation system
- sanitation infrastructure
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The process of making something free from bacteria or disease by cleaning it thoroughly.
The hospital has a strict sanitation procedure to prevent the spread of infections.
Often appears as...
- sanitation procedure
- sanitation practice
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Public Health
Relates to health at a community or city-wide level, not individual cleanliness.
Tourists often notice the sanitation efforts in a city.
Pro Tip 2/3Global Issue
Often discussed in the context of international aid and developing countries.
Organizations work to improve sanitation in rural areas.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Outcomes
Poor sanitation is linked to negative outcomes like disease outbreaks.
The cholera spread due to inadequate sanitation.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Health
Relates to health at a community or city-wide level, not individual cleanliness.
Tourists often notice the sanitation efforts in a city.
Pro Tip 2/3Global Issue
Often discussed in the context of international aid and developing countries.
Organizations work to improve sanitation in rural areas.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Outcomes
Poor sanitation is linked to negative outcomes like disease outbreaks.
The cholera spread due to inadequate sanitation.
Pro Tip 1/3Public Health
Relates to health at a community or city-wide level, not individual cleanliness.
Tourists often notice the sanitation efforts in a city.
Pro Tip 2/3Global Issue
Often discussed in the context of international aid and developing countries.
Organizations work to improve sanitation in rural areas.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Outcomes
Poor sanitation is linked to negative outcomes like disease outbreaks.
The cholera spread due to inadequate sanitation.
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Bjorn Lomborg: Global...
financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, population migration, sanitation and water, and subsidies and trade barriers. We believe that these in many ways encompass the biggest problems in the world. The obvious question would be to ask, what do you think are the biggest things?
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Population pyramids:...
Countries that have only recently begun the process of industrialization typically see an increase in life expectancy and a fall in child mortality rates as a result of improvements in medicine, sanitation, and food supply. While birth rates remain constant, leading to a population boom.
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Melinda French Gates:...
we make an assumption, that we think that, if people need something, we don't have to make them want that. And I think that's a mistake. And there's some indications around the world that this is starting to change. One example is sanitation. We know that a million and a half children
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Exclusive: Matt Damon...
full of all of these great causes important causes why this issue I think for me as I started to look at issues of extreme poverty and and wanted to get involved water and sanitation just under it was like it undergirded everything it was just so massive and and I didn't
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The taboo secret to...
gets into everything we how we talk about it, how we encourage people to study, our jokes, our codes And it ultimately determines how innovative we can be. So, that's the first reason we don't innovate in sanitation.
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Why We Need To Talk Shit...
seen progress on sanitation I can see three reasons first let's look in the mirror we have it too easy we flesh and forget we know there's some system deep underground that will deal with it this very absence of and
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Is human evolution...
by keeping us alive when our genes, sometimes combined with infectious diseases, would have killed us. Antibiotics, vaccines, clean water and good sanitation all make differences between our genes less important.
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A burial practice that...
from the funeral industry. It's a multi-billion-dollar industry, and its economic model is based on the principle of protection, sanitation and beautification of the corpse. Whether they mean to or not,
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When is water safe to...
One out of ten people in the world can't actually be sure that their water is clean and safe to drink. Why is that? Inadequate sanitation, poor protection of drinking water sources, and improper hygiene
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Viper Bite in Slow Mo! PIPE...
More than 65 percent of India's population lives without indoor sanitation. Heading into the night barefoot to answer the call of nature is the norm in rural areas
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Bjorn Lomborg: Global...
financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, population migration, sanitation and water, and subsidies and trade barriers. We believe that these in many ways encompass the biggest problems in the world. The obvious question would be to ask, what do you think are the biggest things?
Video examples
Population pyramids:...
Countries that have only recently begun the process of industrialization typically see an increase in life expectancy and a fall in child mortality rates as a result of improvements in medicine, sanitation, and food supply. While birth rates remain constant, leading to a population boom.
Video examples
Melinda French Gates:...
we make an assumption, that we think that, if people need something, we don't have to make them want that. And I think that's a mistake. And there's some indications around the world that this is starting to change. One example is sanitation. We know that a million and a half children
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Exclusive: Matt Damon...
full of all of these great causes important causes why this issue I think for me as I started to look at issues of extreme poverty and and wanted to get involved water and sanitation just under it was like it undergirded everything it was just so massive and and I didn't
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The taboo secret to...
gets into everything we how we talk about it, how we encourage people to study, our jokes, our codes And it ultimately determines how innovative we can be. So, that's the first reason we don't innovate in sanitation.
Video examples
Why We Need To Talk Shit...
seen progress on sanitation I can see three reasons first let's look in the mirror we have it too easy we flesh and forget we know there's some system deep underground that will deal with it this very absence of and
Video examples
Is human evolution...
by keeping us alive when our genes, sometimes combined with infectious diseases, would have killed us. Antibiotics, vaccines, clean water and good sanitation all make differences between our genes less important.
Video examples
A burial practice that...
from the funeral industry. It's a multi-billion-dollar industry, and its economic model is based on the principle of protection, sanitation and beautification of the corpse. Whether they mean to or not,
Video examples
When is water safe to...
One out of ten people in the world can't actually be sure that their water is clean and safe to drink. Why is that? Inadequate sanitation, poor protection of drinking water sources, and improper hygiene
Video examples
Viper Bite in Slow Mo! PIPE...
More than 65 percent of India's population lives without indoor sanitation. Heading into the night barefoot to answer the call of nature is the norm in rural areas
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Rose George
British Journalist
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.
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Yusuf Hamied
Indian Scientist
Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
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Kat Graham
American Actress
Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell
American Public Servant
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.
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Bjorn Lomborg
Danish Scientist
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
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Ram Nath Kovind
Indian Politician
Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
American Politician
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.
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Denzel Washington
American Actor
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
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Jim Yong Kim
South Korean Public Servant
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
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Rose George
British Journalist
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.
Quote examples
Yusuf Hamied
Indian Scientist
Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
Quote examples
Kat Graham
American Actress
Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell
American Public Servant
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.
Quote examples
Bjorn Lomborg
Danish Scientist
Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.
Quote examples
Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
Quote examples
Ram Nath Kovind
Indian Politician
Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.
Quote examples
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
American Politician
Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.
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Denzel Washington
American Actor
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Quote examples
Jim Yong Kim
South Korean Public Servant
Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
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