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June 17, 2018
The number of dollars the World Bank contributed for building latrines in India.
The number of people who die globally each year from polluted water diseases.
Much of the world is in a war against the perils caused by inadequate or non-existent sanitation. People as diverse as Matt Damon, a Hollywood celebrity, award-winning actor and producer/screenwriter, and Narendra Modi, the current prime minister of India, are battling uphill against open defecation (in the sewers, in running streams, by the roadsides, in the fields and the forests, in garbage dumps).
Mr. Modi actually campaigned for office with the slogan “Toile…