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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Every day, 1.1bn people poo without a loo by Kounteya Sinha

Every day, 1.1bn people poo without a loo by Kounteya Sinha

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published Published on Mar 17, 2010   modified Modified on Mar 17, 2010

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 diarrhoea and other intestinal diseases, and contributes to poor hygiene which kills hundreds of thousands of people globally every year.

WHO-UNICEF, which released a report on open defecation late Tuesday night, terms it the riskiest sanitation practice of all. It has been found to be widespread especially in southern Asia. An estimated 44% of the population in this region defecate in the open.

Interestingly, amid such depressing figures, the report claims to see a silver lining. It says that nearly a quarter of the world had no access to toilets in 1990, but that figure has dropped to 17% at present. This means that 168 million fewer people defecate in the open since 1990.

As far as India is concerned, the number has decreased from 74% of the population in 1990 to 63% in 2000 and 54% in 2008.

According to the new WHO/UNICEF joint monitoring programme (JMP) report titled 'Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water 2010', around 39% of the world's population or over 2.6 billion people are still living without improved decent sanitation, leaving human waste in fields, forests and rivers.


The Times of India, 17 March, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Every-day-11bn-people-poo-without-a-loo/articleshow/5691884.cms
 

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