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Nepal: Students queue up to defecate
It is not a new issue to queue up for hours for drinking water in many places but it can be new for many that one has to stand in queue to defecate in the open place. Students [from] Bagh Devi...
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The taboo of poo – why are we so reluctant to talk about one of the biggest...
Photo: Asian Geographic Picture this: The setting sun is spreading a warm glow over your small rural village, but you are inside your house doubled over with intestinal pain. All you want is for...
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Indonesia – Defecation outside toilets a common sight
Despite a government campaign promoting a healthier lifestyle and improved sanitation facilities, some people continue to defecate in rivers and in other open areas around their homes. Residents are...
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India – 72 per cent in rural Karnataka have no access to toilets
Bangalore, Jul 20 (PTI) As many as 72 per cent of people in rural Karnataka still resort to open defecation, around 63 per cent do not treat their water before drinking and majority of women do not...
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Nigeria: Katsina Campaigns Against Open Defecation
8 September 2009 Katsina — Katsina State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASSA) has this week launched a triggering of “disgust and shame” campaign to fifty five communities to fight an...
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Nepal: opportunity to use toilet for the first time in 83 years
Silgadi: Haridatta Bhatta, 83, a resident of Nuwakot of Kalikasthan VDC-6 felt uneasy while using a toilet for the first time in his life. Bhatta, who has been practicing open air defecation, has used...
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Asian sanitation data book 2008 – achieving sanitation for all
The overall city sanitation picture in Asia is not bright. Sanitation has not been given sufficient priority and certainly lags behind provision of drinking water. This is one of the findings of a...
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Ghana, Accra: Owning Latrines “Makes us Fat” – Local Community
Generally, the main perceived advantages of latrine ownership are proximity/easy access and privacy. For the people of Gozakope in the Dangme West District of the Greater Accra Region however,...
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Stinking data: 600mn Indians have no toilets!
No one would ever call Radha Jagarya fortunate. The 45-year-old widow and her four children live on the pavement in an upmarket south Mumbai suburb, scraping a living by selling flowers to passing...
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Afghanistan, Kabul: toilet tribulations
For Kabul’s estimated population of 4-5 million there are only 35 public toilets, according to the municipal authorities. “We need at least 65 extra public latrines in Kabul immediately,” Nesar Ahmad...
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Uganda, Kampala: living on the edge in Namuwongo
On a tiny crumbling concrete floor sits a raised makeshift building with stairs of half-baked bricks. With the upper part screened off by boxes and plastic materials, this is what passes for a toilet...
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India: Bollywood actor to teach hygiene to school kids
Aamir Khan After showcasing India through the Incredible India campaign, actor Aamir Khan will be creating awareness about urban sanitation and hygiene issues among schoolchildren. The government has...
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Sierra Leone: plan for sanitation rests with community
Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is not always a success. The IPS article below tells about a peri-urban community in Sierra Leone where a CLTS programme failed because the community had wrongly...
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Uganda: pupil rewarded for exposing open defecation
A 13-year-old Primary Six pupil was rewarded with sh20,000 [US$ 9] during celebrations of the Day of the African Child in Kamuli district after she told the audience that members of her family defecate...
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In Nepal, Shame Tactics Boost Bathroom Usage
While Pakistan is struggling with devastating flood waters, neighboring Nepal is fighting a water problem of its own: Contamination by human feces. Open defecation is so widespread in Nepal that health...
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The 26 metre “Shitting Man”
Dutch residents have nicknamed Antony Gormley's sculpture as "the shitting man". Photo: Victor Arnolds/NRC Has a monument to open defecation been erected in The Netherlands? You might think so after...
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WASHCost reveals higher capital costs for sanitation than water, and high...
Most sanitation costs in rural and peri-urban areas are borne by households and when these are taken into account, the per capita costs are actually higher than those for water. State expenditure on...
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Indonesia, NTT: latrine “contracts” to fight open defecation
Local officials in a district in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province are trying out social “contracts” to encourage villagers to build and use latrines. So far five families in the province’s Timor...
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India, Mumbai: tackling open defecation in Dharavi
The municipal corporation of Mumbai (BMC) is finally taking action, after seven years, to stop Dharavi slum dwellers from using the Maharashtra Nature Park Society (MNPS) footpath as an open toilet....
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The Toilet Named Nigeria
In his latest column, government critic and Professor of Creative Writing at Trinity College (USA) Okey Ndibe, voices his disgust at the practice of open defecation in his homeland Nigeria. If you want...
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