India needs a great sanitary awakening

Abstract

[...] much of the illness in India is due to poor environmental sanitation, i.e., unsafe drinking water, polluted soil, unhygienic disposal of human excreta and refuse, poor housing, insects and rodents. [2] The National Water Supply and Sanitation Programme was launched as early as 1954 and was supported by the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (1971-72), the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981-90), the Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (1986), the Central Rural Sanitation Programme, the Total Sanitation Campaign and the Millennium Development Goals(2000) and similar programs.