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India leads the world’s failure story in eradicating open defecation, malnutrition -Kundan Pandey

-Down to Earth

New WHO-UNICEF report warns that lack of progress on sanitation would undermine gains from access to safe drinking water

India has achieved very little in the last 20 years when it comes to eradicating open defecation. Also, India is one among two countries (along with Namibia) which have the largest gap between their richest and poorest people in terms of facilities for open defecation.

These facts were highlighted in a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF which warns that lack of progress on sanitation threatens to undermine child survival and health benefits from gains in access to safe drinking water.

The Joint Monitoring Programme report named “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment”, says worldwide, 1 in 3 people, or 2.4 billion, are still without sanitation facilities—including 946 million people who defecate in the open.

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