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Bloomberg
November 21, 2013
About 638 million people in India, or more than half of those residing in the second-most populous nation on Earth, defecate in the open.
Remedying the dearth of toilets, its toll on children from diarrhea and other diseases related to dirty water and sanitation, and the lack of a safe clean place to go is the challenge facing India and others on the first World Toilet Day.
On a planet where one in three don’t have access to proper sanitation, toilets are out of reach for 53 percent of India’s 1.2 billion residents left with little choice but to go outdoors, according to UNICEF.
“Having access to a toilet is still an alien concept in India,” said Subramanya Kusnur, chairman and chief executive officer of Aquakraft Projects Ltd., a company that’s setting up water vending machines in rural India.
The good news is that the figure for those lacking a toilet in India is an improvement from 63.6 percent in 2001. According to the United Nations, 1.8 billion people in a world of 7 billion have gained access to sanitation since 1990 though 15 percent of the globe still practices open defecation.
Twenty countries, most in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, account for 80 percent of the 1.1 billion that practice open defecation. About 526 million women have nowhere safe to go to the toilet except in the open, the WaterAid agency says.
