Geography News Network

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 toilet by 2019 (Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birthday), equaling 110 million toilets in the next four years. It’s a worthy goal expected to eliminate approximately 600,000 deaths a year caused by diarrhea and cholera...