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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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How many of you guys don't have toilets in your homes, or don't feel
the need for being concerned about sanitation? How many of your guys
don't believe that the 'clean' tourists who have been coming to Goa
all these years have not contributed significantly to adding to our
garbage and stink load in Goa? (Welcome along to a visit to the
Saligao-Calangute hillock, where garbage from Calangute gets dumped!)
And how many of you'll don't believe that the photo at
[http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=536195&page=2]
together with the loaded heading for the thread reflects as much the
bias of tourists affected in their real estate deals, as did the bias
of likening Goa to paradise when they first discovered it and got
'cheap' deals here?
While on the topic, some sanitation facts (it's only in India that we
have a toilet museum [http://www.toiletmuseum.com/] and need we have a
lot of work to do on this front, while not looking down on 'toilets'):
* Proper sanitation is a seemingly mundane thing that most people in
the 'developed' world take for granted.
* At least 2.6 billion people -- some 41 per cent of the global
population -- do not have access to latrines or any sort of basic
sanitation facilities.
* Millions resultantly suffer from a wide range of preventable
illnesses, such as diarrhoea, which claim thousands of lives each day,
primarily young children.
* Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of poor sanitation.
That's 1.5 million preventable deaths each year. [Source
theUNWorksinIndia, monthly newsletter of the UN Information Centre,
New Delhi]
So please take your sanitation seriously! Even if Goa "has become a
toilet". --FN
PS: If you thought all toilets were bad, and dirty, please pay Rs 2
and visit the one at the Panjim ferry jetty.
