"No toilet, no bride."
May 8, 2009

India's considerable shortage of women (the sex ratio is 12% out of balance at birth) means that women have more leverage than they might've had in the past when it comes to marriage. One of the results is a slogan called "No toilet, no bride", out of which mothers are insisting that their daughters' suitors have indoor plumbing. It's just a small example of how the well-developed municipal wastewater infrastructure we have in the United States is too easily taken for granted.

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