Over 1 Billion people still practice Open Pooing Worldwide Experts Says

Do you know that in Sub-saharan Africa Nigeria is the worst offender, with 39 million open defecators in 2012 compared to 23 million in 1990?

Over 1 billion people worldwide still openly defecate. U.N. experts said on Thursday at the launch of a study on drinking water and sanitation that they need to be told that the act leads to the spread of fatal diseases.

Societies that practice open defecation significantly poses them at risk from cholera, diarrhoea, dysentry, hepatitis A and typhoid which tend to have large income disparities and the world's highest numbers of deaths of children under 5 years old.

Attempts to improve sanitation among the poorest have long focused on building latrines, but the United Nations says that money literally went down the toilet. Attitudes, not infrastructure, need to change, it said.