THE Value OF Sanitation: India's Toilet Problem

Geography News Network

Oct 2, 201507:28Education

620 million people – about half of India's population – defecate in the open every day. In August 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised during his independence day speech that every home would have a to...

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