The crisis in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector extends to institutions, 50 per cent of all rural communities and schools in Southeast do not have basic water supply and sanitation facilities while 50 per cent of health care facilities lack clean water and 88 per cent of them lack basic sanitation. Nearly 60 thousand children die before they start school from diseases caused by poor levels of access to WASH. When waters run dry, people can’t get enough to drink, wash, or feed crops, and economic decline may occur. In addition, inadequate sanitation-a problem for over 120,000 people-can lead to deadly diarrheal diseases, including cholera and typhoid fever, and other water-borne illnesses. Many rural COMMUNITIES in Southeast, Nigeria have a problem with toilets. It doesn’t have enough of them. That means hundreds of millions of people in the country end up defecating outside, which can spread diseases including cholera, typhoid and COVID-19. Poor sanitation in these rural communities leads to over 126,000 deaths every year from diarrheal diseases.