Environment

A Place to Go

Nearly 950 million people still routinely practice open defecation, and 569 million of them live in India; and the evidence can readily be found when walking along train tracks or rural roads.
Disease caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water kills 1.4 million children a year, more than measles, malaria, and AIDS combined. In 2015 the United Nations called for an end to open defecation (under number six of the Sustainable Development Goals to be achieved by 2030), and it is indeed possible to make considerable progress.
Such progress would also help alleviate poverty and hunger, and improve education, as sick children miss school, as do menstruating girls at schools with no clean, proper toilet facilities.



https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/toilet-defecate-outdoors-stunting-sanitation

https://www.visapourlimage.com/en/festival/exhibitions/un-petit-coin-defecation-en-plein-air-et-assainissement

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