• 300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside
• Bangladesh, has reduced open defecation from 19% to 3% in just two years by decentralising sanitation programmes
• Nearly half of India’s 1.2 billion people have no toilets at home
• Everyday 200,000 tonnes of human feces are deposited in India, left in the open

References

1. Guardian: Lack of toilets puts India’s health and rural women’s safety at risk
2. BBC: India unveils cheap new village toilets
3. More on Pubmed: Toilets and India
4. BBC: India brides leave husbands’ homes for lack of toilets
5. CSE: Political economy of defecation
6. Sulabh: Q2P documentary
7. BBC: Composting toilets
8. BBC: Amartya Sen: India’s dirty fighter
9. BBC: The toilet system turning human waste into energy