It reflects the health of a country's people and the country's ability to collect, clean, and distribute water. In rural areas, it implies that members of the household do not have to spend excessive time each day fetching water. Water is safe or unsafe depending on the amount of bacteria in it. Access to sanitation. Refers to the share of the population with at least adequate excreta disposal facilities that can effectively prevent human, animal, and insect contact with excreta.
Suitable facilities range from simple but protected pit latrines to flush toilets with sewerage.
To be effective, all facilities must be correctly constructed and maintained. Adult illiteracy rate. The proportion of the population over age fifteen who cannot, with understanding, read and write a simple statement about their everyday life and do simple mathematical calculations. A life-threatening parasitic disease caused by a worm that lives in a host snail. Humans can become infected when they come in contact with water in ponds and rivers where the snail lives.