WATER FOR ALL NEWS
Issue 42, February 2009
Concerted efforts around the globe have made open defecation a dying practice. But it is not dying fast enough. The years between 1990 and 2006 saw only a slight drop from 24% to 18% in the number of people engaged in this practice. This means a staggering 1.2 billion people, most of them in rural areas, still defecate in the open, unaware or unmindful of the health and environmental problems they are creating
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