Source: WaterAid
In India, 173 people defecating in the open for every square kilometer in the country. That ratio would be the same as 500 people having to defecate in the open in the Square Mile of the City of London, or 15,000 people in Manhattan, New York City. Open defecation leaves communities filthy and children ill and undernourished. According to World Health Organisation data, more than 140,000 children in India die from diarrhea each year before they reach the age of five.
Worst places in the world to find a toilet,
Bottom ranked: South Sudan Runners up: Niger, Togo, Madagascar -
Top ten places with the longest queues for toilets
India, the world’s second most populous nation, has a well-known problem with sanitation. Cities growing at an incredible pace with unofficial, unserviced slums, combined with cultural preferences for open defecation in fields rather than enclosed spaces, mean India has the
World’s Longest Queues for Toilets.
If you stretched all 774 million people in India now waiting for household toilets, the queue would stretch from Earth to the moon – and beyond! That queue would take 5,892 years to work through, assuming each person needs about four minutes in the toilet.
In India, 173 people defecating in the open for every square kilometer in the country. That ratio would be the same as 500 people having to defecate in the open in the Square Mile of the City of London, or 15,000 people in Manhattan, New York City. Open defecation leaves communities filthy and children ill and undernourished. According to World Health Organisation data, more than 140,000 children in India die from diarrhea each year before they reach the age of five.
Worst places in the world to find a toilet,
Bottom ranked: South Sudan Runners up: Niger, Togo, Madagascar -
Top ten places with the longest queues for toilets
India, the world’s second most populous nation, has a well-known problem with sanitation. Cities growing at an incredible pace with unofficial, unserviced slums, combined with cultural preferences for open defecation in fields rather than enclosed spaces, mean India has the
World’s Longest Queues for Toilets.
If you stretched all 774 million people in India now waiting for household toilets, the queue would stretch from Earth to the moon – and beyond! That queue would take 5,892 years to work through, assuming each person needs about four minutes in the toilet.
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