Myanmar: Water, Sanitation Crisis: Roadside Refugees Suffer the Brunt

Sep 17, 2017 | Pinaki Roy and Mohammad Ali Jinnat, Daily Star
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Tens of thousands of Rohingyas, who are staying either in the open or in makeshift tents by the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf highway, hardly have any drinking water and sanitation facilities. The refugees, mostly children and women, also can't take a bath as there is no arrangement for that. Also, there are only a handful of makeshift latrines. As a result, almost all of them need to go to nearby jungles to defecate.