There are a few challenges standing in the way of providing
access to sanitation for all of India. First and foremost is
just that old habits die hard, and it's hard to convince people
that sanitation is better for their own and India's health. From
the Global Post, writer Saritha Rai gives us more reasons why a
necessity is in short supply in India. On the one hand, India
has some 565 million mobile phone connections, covering roughly
half the country’s 1.2 billion people. It is a country whose
tech-savvy workforce provides sophisticated tech know-how to the
rest of the globe. But only 366 million people, a third of its
population, have the use of a proper toilet, according to a
recent study by the United Nations. The rest defecate in the
open, leading to the stereotype that India is a dirty, smelly
country. The tragic irony brings to the fore the sanitation
challenges in a poor country. Borrowed Western sanitation ideas,
power- and resource-intensive as they are, simply cannot be
replicated in India, says S