Singapore called Tuesday for greater efforts to improve sanitation in developing countries as it celebrated the inaugural UN World Toilet Day, an initiative by the cleanliness-obsessed island republic.
Grace Fu, second minister for the environment and water resources, told a conference on the subject that 80 per cent of an estimated 2.5 billion people without access to basic sanitation worldwide live in Asia.
“Much still needs to be done as inadequate sanitation is a primary reason for the s ..