Toilets as social enterprise
From William Saletan's Crap and Trade:
Last fall, New Delhi hosted the World Toilet Summit. At the meeting, experts estimated that 700 million Indians lacked access to proper toilets. "Defecating in the open can contaminate water supplies and spread diseases such as diarrhea," Reuters observed. Accordingly, India committed to increase its spending on rural sanitation by almost half, "building toilets for hundreds of millions of its poor and homeless." The country's minister of rural development pledged, "By 2012, India will be free of defecation in the open."
It illustrates a point I make in my classes re the unsustainable (ha!) distinction between do-gooder enterprise and straight commerce--if social benefit is the determining factor, every plumber is a social entrepreneur.
And hey, why not? As someone whose winter snow chores included shoveling a path to the neighbor's outhouse, I will be forever regard indoor plumbling as the apex of social good.
FYI, click through the Flickr pic for translations of the above guide to using a Western toilet.
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