The practice contaminates foods and water, and transmits diarrhea-related diseases that kill 700,000 children every year worldwide 200,000 of them are in India says Brian Arbogast, director of the Water Sanitation and Hygiene Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Gates Foundation's Brian Arbogast says even affordable innovations won't alone solve India's sanitation problems. He says India needs to shift the mindset that open defecation is "natural and normal" to "it is not healthy."
