India is building millions of toilets. Getting people to use them is a bigger task.

[get_involved]

"More than 53 percent of all Indian homes — about 70 percent in the villages — lack a toilet. Poor sanitation and infected water cause 80 percent of morbidity afflicting rural India, and diarrhea is a leading killer of children younger than 5, Unicef says."

The poor in our country are rich compared to other countries!

India is building millions of toilets. Getting people to use them is a bigger task. - The Washington Post

 

[Pete7469]

Our "poor" haven't the slightest idea what poverty is. Even our homeless people have better lives than some of the people in the developing world.

 

[LindaVance826]

This gives a whole new meaning to the expression, "don't shit where you eat." It is incredible that India is just now building the toilets.

 

[Pete7469]

This gives a whole new meaning to the expression, "don't shit where you eat." It is incredible that India is just now building the toilets.

They probably figured "Fuck it, we haven't had them for the last 10,000 years, what's the rush"?

 

[Rexx Taylor]

i wonder if all indians know who invented the toilet, and it wasn't an indian.

 

[LindaVance826]

If they don't know what they are for, I'd guess they wouldn't know who invented the crapper.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I hope those are composting toilets. We are running flat ass out of usable water these days.

 

[TheOldSchool]

This gives a whole new meaning to the expression, "don't shit where you eat." It is incredible that India is just now building the toilets.

Not really. They lived under colonialism and in the grips of a backwards religion for hundreds of years. Hell the caste system still plays a big role over there. It's good that they are modernizing. The U.S. should work on expanding the relationship with them, as they could become our most important ally in that region.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

so where are they going to get composted people manure now? the cow chit wont be enough for the farms.

 

[rcfieldz]

I hope those are composting toilets. We are running flat ass out of usable water these days.

Sounds like they could use some help from Bill Gates.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

well i hope that they will be informed that u cannot drink the toilet water.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

well i hope that they will be informed that u cannot drink the toilet water.

You can from the tank, not the bowl.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

I hope those are composting toilets. We are running flat ass out of usable water these days.

Sounds like they could use some help from Bill Gates.

u mean that 70% of Indians just went wherever they wanted? like on sidewalks and streets?

 

[Rexx Taylor]

well i hope that they will be informed that u cannot drink the toilet water.

You can from the tank, not the bowl.

so have they been using pooper scoopers for the last 50/60 years?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

I hope those are composting toilets. We are running flat ass out of usable water these days.

Sounds like they could use some help from Bill Gates.

u mean that 70% of Indians just went wherever they wanted? like on sidewalks and streets?

It goes into open sewers more than likely.

 

[Rexx Taylor]

I hope those are composting toilets. We are running flat ass out of usable water these days.

Sounds like they could use some help from Bill Gates.

u mean that 70% of Indians just went wherever they wanted? like on sidewalks and streets?

It goes into open sewers more than likely.

so u mean that most of the men there often had binoculars/telescopes on them? get their kicks?

 

[Maggdy]

"More than 53 percent of all Indian homes — about 70 percent in the villages — lack a toilet. Poor sanitation and infected water cause 80 percent of morbidity afflicting rural India, and diarrhea is a leading killer of children younger than 5, Unicef says."

The poor in our country are rich compared to other countries!

India is building millions of toilets. Getting people to use them is a bigger task. - The Washington Post

"How can you ask the people to construct toilets when you yourself don't have one?"- Binod Prasad Yadav, Bihar

"Want to contest in village elections? Get a toilet, says Bihar.

Authorities in an east Indian state have made it mandatory for candidates contesting village elections to have a toilet in their home as part of a move to improve sanitation in the country, a senior official said.

The Bihar state assembly on Wednesday passed an act stating that candidates must confirm that they have a toilet inside their home in order to be nominated for the 2016 polls.

“Our objective is to improve sanitary conditions at the micro level and end the disgusting practice of open defecation which is the root cause of many ills,” Binod Prasad Yadav, Bihar’s Panchayati Raj (village governance) Minister, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation....."

Want to contest in village elections Get a toilet says Bihar - The Express Tribune

 

[rcfieldz]

Just think of the tons of TP will be needed...