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