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Today marks World Toilet Day, which was created to bring awareness to the lack of sanitation, water and hygiene facilities in many parts of the world.

In 2020, 494 million people, or 6.3 percent of the world population, were still practicing open defecation, the most severe level of lack of sanitation service. Additionally, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz points out, 22 percent around the world did not have access to at least basic sanitation, defined as a private toilet connected to sewage piping, a septic or composting tank or a pit. 46 percent - almost half of the world population - did not live with safely-managed sanitation, meaning that their sewage was not treated properly, posing severe health risks to them as it enables pathogens to re-enter water supplies.

As recently as the year 2000, 1.3 billion people were still defecating outdoors, with grave health consequences. The UN has been working to eradicated the practice and has made some progress. In 2017, the number of those without access to any bathroom had sunk to 673 million and finally to 494 million in 2020.

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Gains remain to be made in Sub-Saharan Africa, where steady population growth continues to put pressure on sanitation services. Cambodia, Ethiopia, Nepal and India saw the largest fall in outdoor defecation since the year 2000, reducing it from affecting around 70 to 85 percent of the population to 10 to 20 percent.

The latter country has been particularly ambitious in installing proper toilets. Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, more than 60 percent of India's population didn't have access to a household toilet. Since then, billions of dollars were invested under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan ("Clean India") campaign. According to UN numbers, open defecation was reduced to affecting 15 percent of the Indian population in 2020, while those without access to at least basic sanitation now make up around 29 percent.

 

[Kheapathic]

Not that I'm making excuses for them; but how much of that land in Africa is still wilderness and inhabited by poor communities or tribes still operating in hunter-gatherer societies? You'd need to transform everything about those places before even thinking of giving them pipes and shit for cleaning.

 

[Red Hood]

Poo in the loo day

 

[Chilson]

Lets conveniently ignore that NGO's build crap tons (pun intended) of toilets that African's turn into literal seats the minute they get clogged because they are too retarded to use a plunger.

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Fucking knew India won't celebrate this day.

 

[Chaos Theorist]

 

[Screw Danlon]

Not that I'm making excuses for them; but how much of that land in Africa is still wilderness and inhabited by poor communities or tribes still operating in hunter-gatherer societies? You'd need to transform everything about those places before even thinking of giving them pipes and shit for cleaning.

It’s not that high of a bar:
”a private toilet connected to sewage piping, a septic or composting tank or a pit.”

I mean, we had outhouses in America for hundreds if years. Some of the countries failing this still have regular cell phone usage, most have cars. They idea of, at the very least, a separate walled structure with a hole in the ground to keep people from touching excrement is feasible.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

Not that I'm making excuses for them; but how much of that land in Africa is still wilderness and inhabited by poor communities or tribes still operating in hunter-gatherer societies? You'd need to transform everything about those places before even thinking of giving them pipes and shit for cleaning.

I think we had a story pass through about a s toilet in a place like that once, they basically put a portapotty on top of a giant pit to replace the modern plumbing.

A little school boy accidentally fell in, and drowned in noxious shit.

People wondered why nobody tried to save him until it was pointed out just how huge the pit was and how incapacitating the smell would be.

 

[Penis Drager]

Anyone note how fucking useless that color coded map is?
Orange countries run anywhere from 6-25%? So in those countries, anywhere from just over 1/20 and 1/4 of the population is shitting in the open. That's everything from "yeah, you probably know someone who does it" to "this is perfectly normal and acceptable behavior" and everything in between.

 

[Xenomorph]

Squat in the street day.

 

[Finder]

Anyone who has ever been to Mongolia understands why theirs is so high. Large portions of that country are still nomadic, and of those who aren't huge portions still live in semi-fixed Ger districts with varying levels of non-existence infrastructure.

 

[millais]

Anyone who has ever been to Mongolia understands why theirs is so high. Large portions of that country are still nomadic, and of those who aren't huge portions still live in semi-fixed Ger districts with varying levels of non-existence infrastructure.

And their population density is miniscule. Everyone in the steppe can probably shit freely wherever and almost never accidentally step in it.

 

[Stephanie Bustcakes]

Map had inaccurate data. Here, I fixed it.

 

[Pork Packer]

Map had inaccurate data. Here, I fixed it.
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No, the original was right

India has officially declared streets, apartment floors, and the mouths of the untouchable caste to be legally toilets so they are now light orange on this map due to this technicality

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Not that I'm making excuses for them; but how much of that land in Africa is still wilderness and inhabited by poor communities or tribes still operating in hunter-gatherer societies? You'd need to transform everything about those places before even thinking of giving them pipes and shit for cleaning.

Poor, yes. Hunter-gatherer, probably not.

Most of Africa is not hunter-gatherer and hasn't been since ancient times. Farmers. Farmers with organized governments, metalworking, monumental architecture, etc. I could be mistaken on this, but I think that where you're more likely to run into the hunter-gatherers is deep in Central Africa and down in Southern Africa too. Most of those red spots are in the Sahel, or the Coast, or Madagascar. All, generally speaking, rather civilized areas of the continent.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

I think we had a story pass through about a s toilet in a place like that once, they basically put a portapotty on top of a giant pit to replace the modern plumbing.

A little school boy accidentally fell in, and drowned in noxious shit.

People wondered why nobody tried to save him until it was pointed out just how huge the pit was and how incapacitating the smell would be.

my kingdom for a horrifying rating.

 

[deso2y]

DESIGNATED

 

[winterfag]

surprised San Francisco didn't bump us up a few points

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Argentina data is 6M people without access to a toilet, out of a population of 45M.

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

I know I'm celebrating world toilet day right fellas BBGHLKGHRLKBRHLKHG oh geez shouldn't have had that taco bell BHGKBGHBKHGBKHB the guys here know what I'm talkin' about BRKHGRKHGBRKHRRG heh heh that one'll wake the dead someone call the ghostbusters