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Bindeshwar Pathak: India's 'Toilet Man' who made urinating safely a reality

2023-08-16 18:26
India is mourning campaigner and social reformer Bindeshwar Pathak who died on Tuesday, aged 80.
Bindeshwar Pathak: India's 'Toilet Man' who made urinating safely a reality

Campaigner and social reformer Bindeshwar Pathak who died on Tuesday, aged 80, was a man who revolutionised the concept of toilets in India.

In the early 1970s, he made a cheap twin-pit toilet - a design which has since been used to build clean toilets in hundreds of thousands of homes across India...