• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    30 days ago

    Forget the moon. We’re all within a few generations of the first people who had access to indoor toilets on a mass scale.

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      30 days ago

      India basically introduced toilets in a single generation.

      According to this article, in 1993, 70.3% of the Indian population did not have access to toilets. By 2021, the number dropped to 17.8%. So literally more than half the population of India got access to toilets within 30 years.

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        30 days ago

        the flushing kind or the hole in he ground kind?
        the there’s a sink kind. or there’s a communal soap bar to wash your asshole with and the other hand to eat with kind?
        wonder how many Indians are left-handed, or if that’s even culturally accepted

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          the flushing kind or the hole in he ground kind?

          Any kind. There’s further breakdowns in access to flushing toilets, dry latrines, composting toilets, etc., but this is part of a long standing project to get people to stop open defecation in places where untreated human waste will mix into drinking water, food supply, etc.