Toilets in rural areas of China have a bad reputation. Some say they are little more than pits next to pigsties. But now a revolution is under way as the government scrambles to meet a United Nations health target that requires 75 percent of rural areas to have sanitary toilets by the end of this year. How bad are rural toilets?
Cleaners pick out a handful of cellphones from excrement while dredging the public toilet at the Wuchang Railway Station in Wuhan, capital of central China"s Hubei province on April 27, 2015. [Photo: CFP] |
