Posted on 01/16/2018 1:11:36 PM PST by grundle
Through a dogged campaign to build toilets and educate Bangladeshis about the dangers of open defecation, the densely populated South Asian nation has managed to reduce the number of people who defecate in the open to just 1 percent of the 166 million population, according to the government — down from 42 percent in 2003.
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I don’t believe it. More AP crap.
Maybe San Francisco should study how Bangladesh accomplished this.
Meanwhile, San Francisco and Seattle are becoming more publicly poopy than ever!
Literal sh*tholes, as it were.
Well, that might help them get more immigrations approved.
a real shxxhole country!
Maybe San Fran can hire a consultant from Bangladesh to teach them.
Hah. They’ve upgraded from street sh!tting to hole sh!tting in only 10 years. Congratulations, East Bengal!
“managed to reduce the number of people who defecate in the open to just 1 percent of the 166 million population”
So they STILL have 1.6 million people openly defecating.
Is it OK to call this a s-hole country?
Still a S@#! Hole! Just like the big cities here in out country.
Funny how among those that do it, the notion of defiling a building by sh!tting in it is more nauseating.
Great news.
Maybe CA can get some high-tech consultants from Bangladesh, find out how it’s done.
The article mentions how children were given whistles, probably to mark and shame the public defecators. Might work really well in SF if groups of nasty little kids could do the same to any bum who did it in public.
Poo in the Loo!
Now if only we could accomplish this in Dimocrat controlled areas of the US.
Bflr
Wow - that’s still 1,660,000 piles of S&%T in the open - how many times a day ?????
“We had to do fierce campaigning,” going door-to-door for years, said Mohammed Badal Sarker, chairman of a local village council. The council even turned children into whistleblowers — literally.
“We provided schoolchildren with whistles to alert the villagers. It worked like magic,” the chairman said. Children were encouraged to shout slogans like “Defecating in the open is the enemy of the people” and “No one will marry your daughter if you do not have a toilet at home.”
The drive has even sparked a new industry in household sanitation, with small businesses cropping up across the country to sell the components for making inexpensive latrines. All it takes, they say, is an investment of $12 to $60 to buy two to three concrete rings and a concrete pan.
“Now you will not find a home without a sanitary latrine,” Sarkar said.
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