horse of george

Viz my prior post on China vs India, from Globe and Mail article:

UNICEF says that 640 million Indians are still “open defecators” – people who relieve themselves in fields or next to railway tracks – a figure that remains high despite hikes in government spending on sanitation projects. Local governments have tangled those projects in corruption and bureaucracy, and even in places where toilet blocks are built, people have been slow to adopt use of the new facilities.

Wow. And I complain about having to navigate my way around dog crap that yuppies refuse to pick up in my pleasant little neighbourhood. This info just floors me. Put India down as one of those countries I will never, ever visit.