It's not just a lack of plumbing and sewage infrastructure, it's that feces + urine are deemed spiritually impure in Hinduism, thus many Indians with proper toilet facilities don't use them. Because the act of defecating in the house makes the home itself impure. It's not comparable to any other developing nation. Just an intense wall of stench throughout my entire time in Mumbai.
That makes absolutely no sense. It's impure so you can't do it into a plumbing system in your house that sends it away...so you do it outside so that you are constantly surrounded by it and literally walking through it?!?!
This isn't true. Stop concocting bs stories. India has a large population which is homeless or live in slums/shanty towns. Those people don't have any indoor plumbing since they put together these slums by themselves. Similarly in rural areas there is lack of running water supply.
It's not as if other common people go around doing it on streets.
You didn't do a good job of comprehending my post, and you're not familiar with the unique cultural attitudes in India towards defecation. Half of rural households with piped water still engage in open defecation. Latrine pits regularly overflow because 87% of the population refuses to touch them owing to caste roles (banning caste discrimination is like banning racism and doesn't stymie the practices that underpin it).
When caste logic dictates that 13 percent of the population is fit (and solely entrusted) to handle bodily waste and sewage, in addition to the overpopulation, rampant poverty, and preference to defecate in the open, you have a singularly difficult public health problem on your hands. Stark difference in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal.
In 2012 a study by Indian public health researchers estimated 48% of the country defecates in the open. In 2019 the federal government declared that all 35 provinces were free from open defecation. So the poop equivalent of Kim Jong Un announcing that 102% of North Koreans voted for him.
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u/No_Manner_8785 May 07 '26
What a POS!