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Comment by PhearTheCeal | Hacker News Reader

Now if only they could eliminate defecating in the streets. [1]

  In India, nearly half of the population 
  - more than 590m people - 
  relieve themselves in the open

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33980904

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This really bothers me. Any ideas to cure this issue with local/government support. I would like to explore more about current solutions in terms of what worked and what not worked so far (with numbers, of course).

Thinking of starting some kind of kickstarter campaign to solve this in few villages and let the community/government to replicate this model to everywhere in India.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulabh_International

This was also a problem among the colonial militia camped outside Boston in 1775. It was difficult to solve because people don't like being told where to shit by officers they elected a few weeks ago.

India is an extremely large country with democracy + huge diversity in terms of culture. India will slowly but surely get there.

People say the same thing about California.

You mean homeless peoples urinating in SF..

No people don't say the same thing about California.

In California it's a rare occurrence among the 38 million people that live there, caused by a tiny fraction of the population - almost exclusively a subset of the homeless.

In India, it's ~45% of 1.2 billion people.

...almost exclusively a subset of the homeless.

And late-night alcohol drinkers! Maybe you've never done it, but lots of people, of both genders, have.

Yes. I live in downtown San Jose, and well-dressed folks (ie clearly not homeless) do it outside the apartment community I live in. I've taken pictures a couple of times, but never sent them to the cops for fear of ruining their lives. (I've heard of people getting charged with "lewd" behavior and being put on sex offenders lists)

Oh, so you've got a collection of pictures of people relieving themselves in the streets?

Nothing strange at all, congrats!

Yes he might ought to worry about getting on one of those lists himself...

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