Lack of toilets is a mindset rather than costs issue
A pit latrine in one of Dar es Salaam City’s suburbs. The city, like other urban centres around the country, faces enormous challenges associated with envionmental conservation. National Bureau of Statistic findings of 2016 put the number at 16 – 19 per cent as those who have access to quality toilets in Tanzania whereas some 15 to 30 per cent use soap to wash their hands after easing themselves.
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In one of the fastest growing cities in Africa, this poses a major drawback of vast proportions as it juxtaposes the multibillion satellite cities against the sprawling suburbs that are suffused with waste
