On World Toilet Day join an expert panel to discuss how to supply adequate sanitation for 2.3 billion peopleIn Ethiopia the proportion of people going to the toilet outside has reduced from 92% to 29% between 1990 and 2015,thanks to a huge push from the Ethiopian government. But around the world, nearly one billion people still practice open defecation, or which can lead to contaminated water sources and the spread of diseases such as cholera,diarrhoea, dysentery, or hepatitis A and typhoid.final year,India launched Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, an ambitious campaign to make the country open-defecation free by 2019 – 11 years before the UN’s target. But India, and like many countries,faces a tricky problem: even people who have a toilet don’t always want to use it. Government-built latrines are rejected by some communities due to the social stigma associated with the build-up and disposal of human waste. People would rather continue to disappear outdoors while they save up to buy a toilet with a pit that is enormous enough to only be emptied every decade or so.
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Source: theguardian.com