Vanguard - World's Toilet Crisis
Synopsis
Intimate, in-depth exploration of the issues people are talking about.
Correspondent Adam Yamaguchi investigates one of the world's biggest public health crises: the 2.6 billion people living without toilets. Modern plumbing has not caught up to the exploding population in India, where the Yamuna River runs black with sewage and bubbles with methane gas as citizens openly defecate along the riverbank. In Indonesia, a "toilet evangelist" spreads the good word about sanitation to both consumers and entrepreneurs, hoping to create a market for affordable commodes in developing countries. Without sanitary methods for disposing of waste, approximately 40% of the global population is subjected to an ongoing pandemic of intestinal afflictions that kill two million people a year.
- HD only
Duration
1 x 60'
Definition
HD
Genre
Factual
Subgenre
Current Affairs
Producer
CURRENT TV