Holy Indian River Is Now a Sewer: Vanguard Reports

What the hell are you babbling about? It's Hindus that are shitting in their own river. It has nothing to do with religious discrepancies. It's called over population and lack of infrastructure. Next...

It's beyond disgusting. I read somewhere that in India at least 700million people don't have access to toilets. 700million people?!!!! That's more than twice the population of the USA

cool story bro. what does that have to do with the OP?

Hall-a-loo-ya!

I have to agree. It was pretty mish mash with little information. Hopefully the finished product will be better.

a large part of his story was about the lack of toilets people deal with, mainly in India.
essentially this is their only option.

I know the reasons well. I read on water issues daily.

In truth, it seems more of a recorded outtake/deleted scene rather than a preview of something in the vanguard show.

I agree.

I NEVER drink tap water because it is polluted with Flouride. It leads to weight gain and migraines. Some pharmecautical company is not going to give up that client (USA) too easily. Think of the revenue loss.

They would have made a better report, but they were probably intoxicated by the fumes. Looks like these sick reporters were getting off on the fact they got to play in Indian poo to me.

loveminx I was surprised there are people in the USA that still drink tap water. It has chlorine in it too, not just fluoride. Yet they complain about us buying bottled water.

I'm sorry but I don't get it. Why would someone bathe in sewage?

How can the government build a, as you call it, "illegal dam" if it were truly illegal ?? Are you also now implying that the government is criminal ? Because, last I heard, the Indian judicial system is independent of its legislature and executive branches and has in the past stopped the government from building other projects that overly damages the environment or the local inhabitants if there was sufficient cause. If feces were the only pollutants, it would be the least of that river's worries then the Indian government wouldn't have the need to spend more than a $1 billion so far on the clean up of the rivers.
It is easy to criticize and condemn the government, the system, the people and the country for the problem, any fool can do that. The real challenge is presenting real solutions, which none of these sanctimonious environmental groups or international activists have been able to do!

Pollutants aren't necessarily equal even though they're all called pollutants. There's a difference between biological crap and chemicals polluting the water. Big difference.

After all, just because you take a crap in your toilet doesn't give your local chemical plant to dump in a few gallons of toxic waste, does it?

But it's OK to shit and piss in your drinking water. Get a clue.

Funny, I don't recall saying that. Maybe it's because I never did!

And anyway, the people living in India don't have the means to shit somewhere else. There's no such thing as public washrooms for the most part. Where else would they shit?

That's their life, and frankly, they have more important things to worry about. You see, the people who do this, they're dirt poor, probably live in shanty homes, if they even have a house at all. They have no running water, no facilities, and nothing at all surrounding them that has a promise of something better.

Trust me, I have a clue.

You're hilarious! They have more important things to worry about, than polluting rivers that are several miles long and turning them into toxic waste dumps, basically causing a suicidal and homicidal environment because of their shit and toxic industrial waste???? And they have the right to procreate like flies to the tune of 1billion people in their country, yet they didn't think that public toilets might be an important and necessary part of their infrastructure? You trying to justify, excuse and rationalize their behavior is utterly ridiculous and disgusting...

That would be like if we had oil spills in the USA and no one made any effort whatsoever to clean them up.

NO, you are Hillarious!
Yes, they have a right to procreate like flies, or rabbits or even human beings without needing YOUR permission or blessing! How dare you question how and when they procreate ? Are you feeding them ? Are you taking care of them ? They can do what ever they damn well please in their own country. They don't need your permission or your condescending approval to live the way they wish to do so! India is a self sufficient country and has been for a LONG time been able to produce enough food to feed its entire populace. Unless you want to clean that river up or pay to get it done, all these condescending comments here are worth less than the feces that the OP video showed!
As for public toilets being some sort of magic remedy to the situation, like how Europe has public toilets- where they charge 1 euro every time you use it? How do you think people in India who can't afford proper toilets would benefit from a public toilet that requires money to use it ?? Thats simply daft! If even European countries can't provide their citizens with free public toilets how do you suppose, a country like India would provide 1 billion people free public toilets ??

The worst part about your comment is the absolute disconnect with reality or even common sense as to the real situation in India to spew such utopian nonsense about environmentalism and public toilets being a priority for Infrastructure in India. Human beings have been shitting long before they invented the commode, so some villagers and urchins shitting in some corner is not a NATIONAL priority when there are people starving and there isn't enough electricity being generated for pumping water or lighting homes.

Who told you that anybody gets their drinking water from that cess pit ?? Or did you think that since its the third world they are too ignorant to know that its polluted and they shouldn't drink from it ?