Study on Sanitation based on 20 slums in Bengaluru slums reveal that 43 % of
the slum dwellers consider multiple reasons (a combination of poor hygiene and
sanitation, poor ventilation, poor drainage, mosquitoes and fatigue due to intensive
physical work) as responsible for their present health condition, while 19 % believe
poor hygiene and poor sanitation facilities as the main cause and 17.5 % attributed
it to mosquitoes and 5.75 % to poor drainage facilities prevailing in the slums
which in turn, may be attributed to a poor toilet access (Manasi et al. 2015).
An interesting analysis of problems during the Aug–Sep 2011 downpour is
represented in the fig.
Photo Skin allergies common among slum residents, Nayandahalli slum
Source http://blog.knowyourclimate.org/2012/11/weather-impacts-bangalore-2011-graphic/
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the slum dwellers consider multiple reasons (a combination of poor hygiene and
sanitation, poor ventilation, poor drainage, mosquitoes and fatigue due to intensive
physical work) as responsible for their present health condition, while 19 % believe
poor hygiene and poor sanitation facilities as the main cause and 17.5 % attributed
it to mosquitoes and 5.75 % to poor drainage facilities prevailing in the slums
which in turn, may be attributed to a poor toilet access (Manasi et al. 2015).
An interesting analysis of problems during the Aug–Sep 2011 downpour is
represented in the fig.
Photo Skin allergies common among slum residents, Nayandahalli slum
Source http://blog.knowyourclimate.org/2012/11/weather-impacts-bangalore-2011-graphic/
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S. Manasi and N. Jamwal