re: India is making concrete out of poop aka poopcrete

Boomers want to replace their grandkids with Indians because Indians call them 10 times a day and their white grandkids only call once a month

Such a weird country.

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Assphalt?

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Still in development. Always cracks

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Are these stats true? That’s amazing progress if so.

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I was being a bit facetious so I didn't go into details.

India and UNICEF put out those numbers, but they are only true if you ignore that they still have to carry buckets of water to flush the toilets and if you count community toilets.

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Official government trackers and international organizations like UNICEF note that household toilet access skyrocketed from roughly 39% in 2014 to over 83–87%—and up to 100% in terms of basic village infrastructure coverage—by the mid-2020s.

However, there are important caveats to what these numbers mean on the ground:

Private vs. Communal Toilets: Not every person counted as having access to sanitation necessarily has a private toilet inside or attached to their home. In some areas, particularly poorer or densely populated communities, residents rely on shared or community toilet facilities.

Infrastructure vs. Running Water: While physical toilet structures were built rapidly, a significant percentage of rural toilets still rely on water being carried manually rather than fully integrated indoor plumbing or pressurized tap-water systems.

Behavioral Shifts: Getting hundreds of millions of people to move away from generations of open defecation and toward consistent toilet usage has required massive, ongoing community education alongside the construction of the toilets themselves.

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