Defecatory stress

In India, when they feel nature call, the good folk shit in the streets. It’s called open defecation, a practice not exclusive to India, of course. 40% of the world’s population lacks sanitary facilities and commit open defecation exclusively. That means there are 1.6 billion daily human shits lying in the open contaminating highways, byways and waterways across the world. 1,600,000,000 piles of human shit every day. In New Delhi they’ve made an effort to deal with the shit problem. They’ve built great numbers of public toilets to shit in and hired thousands of people to pick up millions of publicly deposited turds. That’s a start, I suppose, but still, 70% of New Delhi’s sewage flows directly into the Ganges. Is it possible to clean up this mess? With India’s population growing ever larger, the odds are pretty shitty.