India crappy problems, LITERALLY!

India have big ``crap`` problems...

India Failing to Control Open Defecation Blunts Nation’s Growth

March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Until May 2007, Meera Devi rose before dawn each day and walked a half mile to a vegetable patch outside the village of Kachpura to find a secluded place.

Dodging leering men and stick-wielding farmers and avoiding spots that her neighbors had soiled, the mother of three pulled up her sari and defecated with the Taj Mahal in plain view.

With that act, she added to the estimated 100,000 tons of human excrement that Indians leave each day in fields of potatoes, carrots and spinach, on banks that line rivers used for drinking and bathing and along roads jammed with scooters, trucks and pedestrians. Devi looks back on her routine with pain and embarrassment.

“As a woman, I would have to check where the males were going to the toilet and then go in a different direction,” says Devi, 37, standing outside her one-room mud-brick home. “We used to avoid the daytimes, but if we were really pressured, we would have to go any time of the day, even if it was raining. During the harvest season, people would have sticks in the fields. If somebody had to go, people would beat them up or chase them.”

In the shadow of its new suburbs, torrid growth and 300- ­million-plus-strong middle class, India is struggling with a sanitation emergency. From the stream in Devi’s village to the nation’s holiest river, the Ganges, 75 percent of the country’s surface water is contaminated by human and agricultural waste and industrial effluent. Everyone in Indian cities is at risk of consuming human feces, if they’re not already, the Ministry of Urban Development concluded in September.

EW....

But at least they've got MORE CELLPHONES THAN TOILETS!

Maybe instead of developing new nuclear missiles, they could do something about this eh? I mean Pakistan is run by nuts, but I think the threats of disease because of this is way more dangerous.

[edit on 16-4-2010 by Vitchilo]

Sheesh... A Curry Can Burn You Three Times!

Wot A Bummer!

IRM

Note to self: Do Not eat or drink anything from India...AT ALL!!!! Now that's done.....I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.