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Climate change is encouraging unsanitary toilet practices among vulnerable communities

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par James Harper, Assistant Teaching Professor of Engineering Design, University of Colorado Boulder

Everyone knows that climate change has consequences, such as a higher likelihood of severe floods, hurricanes and droughts. But here’s a lesser-known problem: Climate change makes toilets more likely to break, which leaves people more likely to “go” outside.

That’s what colleagues and I found when we studied households across six rural Cambodian provinces, focusing on their access to proper toilets and when people decide to abandon sanitary systems in favor of open defecation, or “going” outside.

We…

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