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The baseline hygiene in India isn't much higher than what was found. Apart from the worms everything is kinda routine. Flushless toilets are common everywhere.
by frontman1988 5y ago
The baseline hygiene in India isn't much higher than what was found. Apart from the worms everything is kinda routine. Flushless toilets are common everywhere. Crowded doms is also the norm for people living in chawls and slums in urban India. Handwashing using soap itself is practised by only 2/3rd of the population (and this is when majority don't use tissue paper/bidet). Similarly deodrant is unheard of. Open defecation is still practised in villages. Sadly I could go on and on
- naruvimama 5y agoFlush toilets use a lot of water, even wealthy people use buckets. Moreover squat toilets, which is how the human anatomy has evolved generally require the use of mugs and buckets, is the preferred and often cleaner method. Soap usage is quite common these days except perhaps in the remotest and the poorest regions. There is an obsession with western comodes and toilet paper, if you read up on their relatively recent history and a solution looking for a problem you would realise they they aren't great ideas. This is especially considering a warm country like India, where washing one's self with water and soap is the safest option. There is in general a problem with most countries especially developing ones, where the ones using the facilities are far removed from the ones providing it. Often the builders/contractors provide substandard facilities, this includes public facilities like busses. The food poisoning incident has brought out the other complains about other the facilities which has always existed.
- known 5y ago