Sophie Boisson

Sophie Boisson
Why do people choose to defecate in the open than use toilets in rural coastal Odisha?
Maybe beliefs that faeces were impure also caused people to look at the practice of containing faeces in the latrine pit in the house as a ‘sin’ is one reason but there are so many others.
Parimita Routray
Wolf-Peter Schmidt
Thomas Clasen
Marion W. Jenkins
Posted on 19 Nov, 2015 04:45 PM

Of the one billion defecating in the open globally 66% live in India, of which 92% live in rural areas. Despite concerted government efforts for the last three decades to promote sanitation, India continues to lag behind in terms of access to basic sanitation facilities.
Sociocultural factors affecting toilet use (Source: Sourabh Phadke)
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