NEW DELHI: This is one world No. 1 tag that 'emerging India' would love to shed. Indians comprised 58% of all people across the world who regularly defecated in the open in 2008. That's more than half the Indian population (54%), a WHO-UNICEF report said. While 18% of urban India indulged in the practice, the percentage was as high as 69% in rural parts of the country.
Globally, 1.1 billion people still have no access to toilets, with India alone contributing 638 million to the figure. Just 11 countries, including India, are home to 81% of such people. The other nations include neighbouring countries like China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, besides Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Brazil and Niger.
Experts say open defecation leads to deadly diarrhea and other intestinal diseases, and contributes to poor hygiene which kills hundreds of thousands of people globally every year.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Every-day-11bn-people-poo-without-a-loo/articleshow/5691884.cms
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Which is why this Swedish invention is so great - a personal, portable latrine bag:
http://www.peepoople.com/showpage.php?page=3_0
The contents can then be sanitized and then used as feritlizer for growing food.
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