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Around 1.1 billion people are forced to defecate and urinate in the open.
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Also in 2008, it was reported that Mr Rickards had allowed a dog to defecate on the artwork after he bought the wall.
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There are issues with running water, electricity and food, with reports of open sewage and passengers being asked to defecate in bags and urinate in showers.
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Spending day after day in the slums, I saw mothers, fathers, grandparents and children nonchalantly walking over to some nearby waste land to defecate, being stripped of their dignity on a daily basis.
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Toby Barlow's wife Ann told him there was "sewage running down the walls and floors" with passengers being asked to defecate in bags and urinate in showers due to a lack of functioning toilets.
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Barlow's husband, Toby, said she told him there was "sewage running down the walls and floors" with passengers being asked to defecate in bags and urinate in showers due to the lack of functioning toilets.
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Now she has a fistula, causing her to urinate and defecate on herself.
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When an uncontrollable urge hit a Marine, he would be forced to stand, as best he could, hold an MRE bag up to his rear, and defecate inches from his seated comrade's face.
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Clayton actually contains only two roosting bats, but they are an unusually gregarious couple, inviting over scores of friends to fly among the rafters, and defecate with abandon.
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According to World Toilet Day organizers, 1.1 billion people around the world defecate out in the open.
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This is not only a costly situation but especially harmful to women, children, the elderly and disabled, who risk their safety visiting public facilities at night. 4.8 million Ghanaians (approximately 1 in 5) have no latrine at all and defecate in the open, and that the poorest quintile is 22 times more likely to practice open defection than the richest.
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