Re: In Bharat 800 million defecate out in the open
How ironic. Even a third world, civil war stricken country like Rwanda is miles ahead of India.
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Bihar is one of the filthiest areas of India, with absolutely no sewage system in many of the cities. I once visited the city of Gaya in Bihar, and in some streets you literally had to wade through *, cow-piss, half-rotten effluent, and there were food-vendors on the street selling food encrusted with a million *-eating flies.
The Indians will never know hygiene or sanitation.
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you dont need to live there dont you have your own country?
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cool. i didn’t know karachi and bihar had so much in common.
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but they want the indian water
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That is the same across most of India it seems, according to the figures.
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jangjoo sahab, please use India instead of Undia.
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I was just attracted by one of those Indian tourism promotion adverts called “Incredible India”. 
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We want the Indus water system, yes. Jehlum flowing throw valley is clean. Indus is clean. Chinab is clean.
Beas, Ravi and Sutlej are clean because they pass through Sikh-inhabited areas, and Sikhs do not defecate in the open.
It’s Ganga, Yamuna and other rivers that are dirty. They all flow into Bangladesh with their filthy water. Good for them! 
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you are th one dump toxic waste into indus river
Residents of Hyderabad say that over the years, neglect and ill-designed drainage projects have turned Manchhar lake into a "vast body of pure poison
Over 40 people died in May last year in Hyderabad from water-borne diseases.
Residents allege that toxic water from a polluted local lake was responsible. The controversy erupts annually as lakes fill up from early summer rains.
But nowhere is the issue debated more hotly than in Hyderabad, the second largest city of the southern province of Sindh some 110km northeast of Karachi.
‘Pure poison’
The immediate cause of the controversy is Manchhar lake, once a fresh water reservoir but now a cesspool of highly toxic water
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4509811.stm
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i’d say there’s some difference between dumping industrial toxic waste into water bodies and defecating in the open en masse?
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is that a justification for defecating in the open?
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Any plans put forward then to stop 800 million Indian's defecating in the open? Or will the stink just continue to grow?
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I doubt there's any plans to bring about what is in effect a cultural change. It's not enough to build latrines. God save you if you ever happen to use an Indian public toilet.
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we are the top destination for investment despite infrasstructure problems
who want to invest in pakistan ?
India has come out as a top Asian destination for investment in a survey of fund managers’ top picks.
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Good point. But imagine the impression that visitors get when the travel to India and see such filth on the streets? The waste of 800 million people littering the streets and roads does not bode well for a good impression of India and Indian’s amongst foreigners.
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Pak Ganjoo - maybe you didnt read this link. See if you can read this..
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This is what it says:
"In India, sanitation and hygiene promotion programmes began in the 1980s. Initially, the emphasis was on technical solutions, specifically the promotion of twin-pit, pour-flush latrines. However, the cost of latrine construction was considered too high and latrine coverage in rural areas remained less than 10 percent."
so it means 90% of your Gramvaasi lungies are actually without toilet (and since they make up 85% of India's population.... 800 million crappers....gosh.. all that stale crap....God save Ganga and Jamoona... no wonder Bongoland is such a fertile country.
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The problems, and some working towards solutions.
***Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak tells the story of a young woman in an Indian village who wrote a letter to her husband, who had gone to the city for a job. “When you come home,” the woman wrote, “do not bring ornaments for me. I would be more pleased if you bring money so we can build a toilet in the house.” Bindeshwar recounts the story to illustrate both a huge public health crisis - the lack of proper sanitations facilities in India - and the growing willingness of people throughout the country to confront a problem traditionally taboo. This story is of special significance to the doctor, who has invented an ingenious and affordable toilet system that addresses both elements of India’s sanitation crisis: the health risk and the costly social effects. “People for the first time saw hope with the alternative that I devised,” Bindeshwar says. “It gave to them, especially women, a sense of privacy and dignity as opposed to the embarrassment involved in open-air defecation.”
More than 700 million people in India have no toilets in their households and defecate in the open or in buckets. It’s estimated that nearly 500,000 people die in India every year from diarrhea-related diseases. Large numbers of Indians - especially children - suffer from other gastro-intestinal disease and worm infestation as a direct result of inadequate sanitation facilities. This deprivation has profound social consequences. In rural villages where the population still defecates in the open, women can relieve themselves only before sunrise or after sunset. Such unnatural restrictions cause physical distress and strip women of their privacy and their dignity, Bindeshwar says***