A toilet or safe drinking water? The stark choice facing many people in rural India -

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-...ve-toilet-or-safe-drinking-water-stark-choice


Eight out of nine people in Odisha’s villages do not use toilets, instead defecating in the open, leaving them vulnerable to diseases. The Swains, with their tiny toilet, which empties into a leach pit – a hole in the ground used to compost faeces when there is no sewage system – are the face of progress.

There is a problem, however. The leach pit is next to the household’s drinking-water source, a tube well. Water so close to a leach pit is vulnerable to contamination from faecal germs, since bacteria, viruses and protozoa can travel through soil.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/global-...ve-toilet-or-safe-drinking-water-stark-choice


Eight out of nine people in Odisha’s villages do not use toilets, instead defecating in the open, leaving them vulnerable to diseases. The Swains, with their tiny toilet, which empties into a leach pit – a hole in the ground used to compost faeces when there is no sewage system – are the face of progress.

There is a problem, however. The leach pit is next to the household’s drinking-water source, a tube well. Water so close to a leach pit is vulnerable to contamination from faecal germs, since bacteria, viruses and protozoa can travel through soil.

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But seriously, why the fuck do we allow people to live like this? Nobody should have to go without clean water to drink and a working sewage system, especially not when so many nations have squandered their God given gift of fresh water systems, and technological progress making purification easier than ever.

 

[ObeseScreamingBlackMan]

Implying any drinking water in India is safe.

 

[DZ 305]

Implying any drinking water in India is safe.

They can't even get a constant supply of water in many places
As of 2010, only two cities in India — Thiruvananthapuram and Kota — get continuous water supply. In 2005 none of the 35 Indian cities with a population of more than one million distributed water for more than a few hours per day, despite generally sufficient infrastructure. Owing to inadequate pressure people struggle to collect water even when it is available. According to the World Bank, none have performance indicators that compare with average international standards. A 2007 study by the Asian Development Bank showed that in 20 cities the average duration of supply was only 4.3 hours per day. None of the 20 cities had continuous supply. The longest duration of supply was 12 hours per day in Chandigarh, and the lowest was 0.3 hours per day in Rajkot.According to the results of a Service Level Benchmarking (SLB) Program carried out by the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) in 2006 in 28 cities, the average duration of supply was 3.3 hours per day, with a range from one hour every three days to 18 hours per day. In Delhi residents receive water only a few hours per day because of inadequate management of the distribution system. This results in contaminated water and forces households to complement a deficient public water service at prohibitive 'coping' costs; the poor suffer most from this situation. For example, according to a 1996 survey households in Delhi spent an average of ₹2,182 (US$32.40) per year in time and money to cope with poor service levels. This is more than two times as much as the 2001 water bill of about US$18 per year of a Delhi household that uses 20 cubic meters per month.

 

[exball]

SUPER POWER BY 2030!

 

[SP 199]

Lol india

 

[Lachlan Hunter McIntyre]

Maybe they should stop farting out a dozen children at a time, then they could afford to invest in quality first-world infrastructure. It isn't a race to see who can run out of resources first, and even if it was China is gonna win. So stop trying.

 

[HG 400]

They're also bad at chess.

@DuskEngine

 

[DuskEngine]

we invented chess just like we invented ancient nuclear power and genetic engineering go home firangi

 

[Bluebird]

India literally has the shittiest water on earth.

 

[derpi]

POO IN LOO

 

[Unattended Baby]

Threads about India are always the shittiest threads.

 

[komugi]

overpopulation and poverty from imperialism. sux that y'all don't think

 

[kookerpie]

There is very nice Indian man who goes around and helps build toilets and also teaches people to not shit in the streets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindeshwar_Pathak