India is building millions of toilets, but that’s the easy part - The Washington Post
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MUKHRAI, India — Rameshwar Natholi received an unexpected gift from the government re
cently when workmen descended on his modest home in this rural village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and built a brand-new toilet in his front yard.
Natholi, a farmworker, said he never wanted one. Most people in his village have been relieving themselves in the open fields for years.
But as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Clean India” campaign to provide new sanitary toilets to more than 60 million homes by 2019, Mukhrai has been in the midst of a toilet-building boom since April.
More than 53 percent of Indian homes — about 70 percent in the villages — lack toilets. Poor sanitation and contaminated water cause 80 percent of the diseases afflicting rural India, and diarrhea is a leading killer of children younger than 5, UNICEF says.
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