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‘India is drowning in its own excreta’ [1]

Sixty per cent of people living in India do not have access to toilets, and hence are forced to defecate in the open. In actual numbers, sixty per cent translates to 626 million. This makes India the number one country in the world where open defecation is practised. Indonesia with 63 million is a far second!

At 949 million in 2010 worldwide, vast majority of people practising open defecation live in rural areas. Though the number of rural people practising open defecation has reduced by 234 million in 2010 than in 1990, “those that continue to do so tend to be concentrated in a few countries, including India,” notes the 2012 update report of UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Publication Date: 
14/06/2012
R. Prasad [2]
Hindu (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
India [4], UNICEF [5], WHO [6], Toilets [7], Panchayats [8], CSE Study [9], Ministry Of Rural Development [10], CSE [11], Sunita Narain [12], Diseases [13], Diarrhoea [14], Water Pollution [15], Drinking Water [16], Water Resources [17], Health Effects [18], Sanitation [19]

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