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With an eye to lowering India’s high maternal mortality, a national ad campaign and one state’s mass wedding program shifts the longstanding sanitation push to men. “Men control the household economy,” says one health activist.
The UN’s target for access to drinking water was reached ahead of time. Great news for girls and women, but Lisa Schechtman is still watching the off-target goal of improved sanitation. What’s the point of water if we can’t keep it clean?
Thousands of women in the sprawling shantytowns outside of New Delhi face a long queue for a grimy toilet and dirty water. Even though the government recognizes women’s special need for sanitation and water, no special provisions are made.
“No toilet, no bride.” That’s the message of a sanitation campaign in one Indian state that has targeted women and appears to be spurring a big rush in toilet installations. The government hopes to achieve sanitation for all by 2012.