Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading for Failure

Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading ... by car on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:29AM (#14407965)

The UN estimated that 65,000 tonnes of uncovered, untreated faeces—equal to the weight of around 180 Airbus A380s—were being introduced into the environment in India every single day.

This is an issue of mind boggling scale.

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Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading ... by panzer_wyrm on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @06:40AM (#14408967)

I am sure that Airbus management is delighted with their best plane being associated with huge piles of shit.

India has definitely a problem with this - it was the only country I was warned about to never drink or eat anything outside of the hotel from friends that had traveled all around the world.

In the Sheraton the water was crystal clear - I think they had in house water plant. In the tech park next to it - it was yellow.

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Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading ... by ageofwant on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @07:23AM (#14409142)

In Mumbai, bout 15 years ago we had a 'hotel boy', he came in every morning and evening and swept the balcony clean of the day's accumulated soot. People shitting, pissing and spitting in the street everywhere, all the time. A jarring experience.

I'll tell you one thing for sure, if ever the world gets wiped out by some global pandemic, the last man standing will be and Indian, pissing in the street.

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Re:Down the Drain: How the Swachh Bharat Mission Is Heading ... by mdns33 on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:20AM (#14410638)

Don't give this rubbish and fake facts. You make it sound like majority of Indians are okay living in a shit hole.

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