I have a question that I would like to ask. Your slide mentioned TFR and
clean water tlccommodation. I could not really understand the relatlonshlp
between th e two. In the extreme sense, maybe you can say that if you have
the high permea tion rate of the piped warter supplicd, you can reduce the
birthrate. Rather th an stating so, you have to have the education and awareness
education. I think this will lead to a better level of hygiene for the people.
Dr. Ogawa:
Maybe I did not explain In full, that's why I just have caused some misundersta
nding. Thc perccntagc of Female Education Rate and the Infant Mortallty Rate,
t herc are two vcry straight lines, as a linear relationship, whereas the
TFR, th e Total Fertility Rate, is not on linear. In that sense, if you really
want to reduce the infant mortality rate, then I lhink it would be more closely
correla ted with the education. And on the other slde, In the other graph,
there is not that much close correlatlon between the two factors. So I agree
to what you ha ve stated.
Question 7 (Hon. Nguyen Thi Than, MP, VIETNAM):
Can you tell me a nice method for treatment of nitrogen-contamlnatcd water?
Whi ch is the technology for the treatment of this waste water? Treatment
of wasted water by nltro-gen?
Dr. Ogawa:
I'm not a specialist in that area, so I can't answer the questlon with the
corr ect answer.
Chairman:
Any other questions? Ladies and Gentlemen, we all politicians, this is just
a g cncral commcnt that.... the politicians who want to be voted in, they
must make sure that they have some answer to the demanding of water. Particularly
by the ladies, and I'm happy to see thc ladics. Because the ladies are the
ones entru sted to make sure that wc havc watcr in thc home. And they are
the ones who are utilizing It. If they are not helped, and that is the men'sjob,
or the politic lans' job, to get the water into the homes, you can forget
your chancc in the n ext elections. And just to illustrate my polnt, some
ycars ago I was in a boat up on the Rlver Nilc to go to a conference in Cairo.
I see P.D. I was sitting w ith a gcntlemun from Australia, who is not here,
Herman Collins. And on the way I saw a lot
