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21 Bum Salute - We Gotta Go Too

When you gotta go , you go. Just down the hall to your bathroom, sit down with aplomb on the throne and shortly thereafter flush IT down. You give not thought to what happens to the shit laden water. Neither do most cities in India . Seventy per cent of the total municipal sewage and effluent from over 900 cities and towns are being discharged untreated into rivers which are a major source of drinking water, a recent study by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has said.

This is the shit (and toilet paper) from those of us with the luxury of flush toilets.

But millions worldwide do without adequate sanitation. But they gotta go too. And that gives us the 21 Bun Salute easy to see steps from the multi - million dollar state legislature in the Lal Kothi area of Jaipur just as day begins. There as in urban slums worldwide people hope to salvage what dignity they can by sitting in open fields to go, hoping for the help from the morning haze. Others both male and female, end up having to go when they gotta go, often in the full glare of the harsh midday sun, with nary a bush to hide behind. The 21 Bum salute.

But why should we care.

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