According to a World Health Organisation report, a third of the world’s population lives without access to proper toilets. This causes natural water reserves to become contaminated with human waste, which in turn causes disease. India is just one of many countries in which rural populations suffer acutely as a direct result of poor, or non-existent, sanitation. The water of the sacred Ganges River once had medicinal properties, and it was possible to drink it. Today, it’s scary even to enter the river, polluted as it is with industrial waste and feces. Will we ever be able to return to the time when a coin could be seen in the clear water of the Ganges?
Cry of a River
