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How smart toilets are saving lives in India

Over 344 million people in India don’t have access to a toilet. We went to New Delhi in February to see how a tiny startup called Garv Toilets is using tech to try to change the way the country thinks about public sanitation. Read more about this story on CNET:

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Over 344 million people in India don’t have access to a toilet. We went to New Delhi in February to see how a tiny startup called Garv Toilets is using tech to try to change the way the country thinks about public sanitation.

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  1. Mahadzir Abd karim

    September 13, 2020 at 2:46 pm

    Congratulation cnet
    Needs more videos OUT FROM STUDIO !

  2. Sultan

    September 13, 2020 at 2:52 pm

    Garv Toilets seems like an interesting initiative but the expensive prices can make it already harder for poverty striken India, our government has a bunch of priorities and they probably don’t have clean toilets on the list.

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 5:24 pm

      Bro it’s the govt who started this open defaction free India project

    • Sultan

      September 13, 2020 at 11:42 pm

      @Naga Boy yes, but how effective was swachh bharat?

  3. Julius

    September 13, 2020 at 3:10 pm

    And people complain that the US is the worst country to live in when there are places out there that lack the infrastructure needed to accommodate basic needs… Such a shame. We still live in a time of history where such conditions are still commonplace.

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 5:23 pm

      problems are every where
      In every country in the world

    • Roshen Philip

      September 13, 2020 at 6:20 pm

      Yes tolets are an issue but its changed and improved over time India, kids get shot and people roam around with guns and the issue with blacks and the whites is your problem, unemployment too buts its the news and everything is exaggerated.

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 6:29 pm

      @Roshen Philip yep

    • helloCREEP

      September 13, 2020 at 7:08 pm

      Calm down Jimmy. You don’t get shot down on an everyday basis in India. People living in these conditions do not even make up 20% of India’s population.

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 7:23 pm

      @helloCREEP hm

  4. Patricia Diaz

    September 13, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    I find this stupid so usa look smart toilet we made for indiana but usa we cant have bidets like japan smart toilet less paper and less water wasted as the monopoly old toilet and buy more paper for your butt.

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 5:21 pm

      So

  5. TON

    September 13, 2020 at 3:47 pm

    our cows need toliets first. we do not need

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 5:10 pm

      What th ur talking

    • helloCREEP

      September 13, 2020 at 7:06 pm

      @Naga Boy
      He is a foreign troll

  6. C Y

    September 13, 2020 at 4:03 pm

    Maybe the Indian government should invest in basic needs of their citizens instead of owning and maintaining nuclear missiles and pause planning space flights! I know what I rather have, clean and hygienic toilets. Just saying

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 5:09 pm

      Already doing can’t u see

    • helloCREEP

      September 13, 2020 at 7:06 pm

      When you are surrounded by land hungry Communists on one side and Radical Islamists who want to wipe your race out of existence on the other, you have to spend a small amount of your budget on Nukes.

  7. Jason Yau

    September 13, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    Sometimes, in hard situations like this, it’s better to choose difficult choices. Our ancestors did not have toilets as we know, so what is stopping them to just take a dump in the forest or somewhere not disturbing? So they just rather to hold it in or something?

  8. Ashu Arong

    September 13, 2020 at 4:37 pm

    Yeah, i have been to India many times. Was in Delhi last year at this time to October 30th, 2019. They with animals openly defecate along the streets sides. India is beautiful but they need serious hygiene self measures. I love India, it is an interesting place.

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 7:26 pm

      Old Delhi or new Delhi?

    • Ashu Arong

      September 13, 2020 at 8:29 pm

      @Naga Boy new Delhi

  9. ofngol

    September 13, 2020 at 4:40 pm

    Good job CNET. This feels like a VICE feature and not a CNET feature but it’s a good thing.

    • Sumeet tanwar

      September 13, 2020 at 5:41 pm

      What vice feature did you saw in this i didn’t saw any leftist propaganda in this?

  10. Bug MARK

    September 13, 2020 at 4:46 pm

    İ can’t watch this video while eating

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 7:28 pm

      No one forcing u to watch

    • Andrey Lucas

      September 13, 2020 at 7:44 pm

      Why are you watching videos while eating?

  11. Nitin Sv

    September 13, 2020 at 4:56 pm

    3:30 she hastate to say RAPE.

  12. Naga Boy

    September 13, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    It’s old Delhi

  13. Naga Boy

    September 13, 2020 at 5:06 pm

    I don’t know why people still make toilet jokes
    India is much changed

  14. Naga Boy

    September 13, 2020 at 5:07 pm

    90 + is open defaction free

  15. Naga Boy

    September 13, 2020 at 5:10 pm

    No toilet to high tech toilets that’s good

  16. teitake

    September 13, 2020 at 5:23 pm

    Do people in India have natural inclination to vandalize public toilets? People in Japan don’t seem to do that.

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 7:22 pm

      No who said that?

  17. Aditya Kumar

    September 13, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    Hate it when people quote data from 4 years ago. The govt has the toilet coverage at 99% in 2019.
    Waste of time

    • Andrey Lucas

      September 13, 2020 at 7:46 pm

      According to the own government 🤔

    • Subbing to everyone who subs to me

      September 13, 2020 at 9:21 pm

      Stop fooling us. India has been trying to fool the world for decades

    • Binod Tharu slay point

      September 14, 2020 at 3:41 am

      @Andrey Lucas So whise data do you consider

    • Tuan X

      September 14, 2020 at 5:26 am

      @Binod Tharu slay point the people actually on the ground reporting & showing you that there are still far too many who don’t have access. Not governments that lie to save face.

    • Binod Tharu slay point

      September 14, 2020 at 5:39 am

      @Tuan X Do you even know In 2014, a huge money by state gov for free toilets were being given to poor and BpL holders.Even non poor people in my area (a semi village area)took advantage and made 1 even when they had and I dint think it was false anyway.A lot of money were given to different contractors.The contractor who took contract of our town was my relative .So , i think you are either living in a town with no contact with villages or you just want to say false to every data given by government.
      Even free homes are being made if you have land.

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:51 pm

      @Andrey Lucas actually it’s 85 to 90 percent not 99

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:55 pm

      @Tuan Xur right
      Also
      this project is started in 2014
      If India were covered 99 percent of toilet coverage
      Then India would never started pace 2 of this project
      I hope before 2022 India became OD
      Free

  18. Hugh Jackson

    September 13, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    Another issue with public sanitation in India that I find disgusting is water burial in which bodies are submerged in the River Ganges. It is Indian custom not to cremate unwed girls and many poor people can’t afford cremation.

    • Naga Boy

      September 13, 2020 at 7:22 pm

      Not every one do that
      N
      Ashes of body a was througn not bodies

    • Hugh Jackson

      September 13, 2020 at 7:29 pm

      @Naga Boy Google “water burial”. Bodies are literally submerged in the water.

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 3:33 am

      @Hugh Jackson don’t know abt that
      Maybe some people do that

  19. helloCREEP

    September 13, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    I am here before foreign trolls, specially the Chinese and the Pakistanis (who actually live in far worse conditions than the Indians) turn the comments section into a bigger sh!thole than the one @0:47.
    I think Government should start funding Garv Toilets.

  20. thesquash 326

    September 13, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    I live at that place where many expensive houses are built with hygienic environment, good security, no noise and cows, good roads, people following traffic rules, 24 hrs water & electricity, clean markets nearby,good network and so on but within few kilometers you will find pile of garbage, few people sleeping on road, men urinating, chaos and unhygienic environment.
    Its seriously sad that in India not everyone can have same type of lifestyle like those of western countries.
    Each and every human deserves to have proper education, environment, sanitation, facilities,etc. Hopefully this country gets there

  21. Mikes World

    September 13, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    I wonder if Chinese Joe could rent one of your bathrooms for a rally?

  22. Winter Wonder

    September 13, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    I don’t understand why people keep having children in these conditions. Yes, I understand it happens but as a parent don’t you want better for your kids? This is horrible that any human does not have access to a clean toilet.

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 4:14 am

      If u r less educated n poor
      U will breed more

    • thesquash 326

      September 14, 2020 at 9:21 am

      You should also understand that poor people are not able to get education and awareness so they will breed without thinking of consequences

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 5:35 pm

      @thesquash 326 yep

  23. Subbing to everyone who subs to me

    September 13, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    They can’t even make toilet and want to compete with Pakistan

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 4:15 am

      42 million pakistanis don’t have toilets

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 4:15 am

      U even watched the video?
      It’s ABT how successfully they made high tech toilets
      Why ur saying they can’t make

  24. Will Jacobs

    September 13, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    Did you really have to curse in the video? Teachers could show something like this to kids but because you had to be an edgelord, you cursed and now it’s unshowable. Idiot.

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 4:14 am

      Cursed how

  25. TrinityImages

    September 14, 2020 at 12:54 am

    5K each in India that’s a lot of money and I bet it only costs lesser than 1000 the remaining 4K it’s just pure profit, India, and Nigeria are one of the greediest countries on the planet..

    I can’t stand people that take advantage of normal people situations, You supposed to take from the rich and give to the poor not the other way round

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 4:12 am

      Not Nigeria and India
      70 percent of the world is like that

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 4:13 am

      But both r changing
      I wish before 2022
      Both became open defaction free

  26. Rivaldo Putra

    September 14, 2020 at 3:24 am

    There are just too many people in india

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 4:11 am

      So?

  27. sherri moquin

    September 14, 2020 at 3:27 am

    It’s Ben fox Rubin from the 3:59 show and I miss watching that

  28. RUSHY RISHI

    September 14, 2020 at 5:18 am

    Why the heck foreigners see INDIA better than our own politicians

  29. Conrad Genio

    September 14, 2020 at 5:55 am

    So there are CCTV inside these toilets?

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:49 pm

      No it’s not

  30. Hassen dz

    September 14, 2020 at 7:49 am

    Few days ago i watched a bolly movie called “ek toilet” i taught its just funny movie story but now i understand that it was a real problem….. Dz

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:46 pm

      That was made for awareness in rural india

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:49 pm

      After 2014 India started Swatch Bharat movement
      Make India open defeation free
      Swatch Bharat pace 2 is already started
      I hope before 2022
      India bcm 100 open defaction free

  31. Rolls Royce

    September 14, 2020 at 7:58 am

    Ignorants:10 million indians don’t have Access to clean sanitation
    Me: That means the other 1 billion people do have

  32. Jaspal Singh Puneet

    September 14, 2020 at 8:01 am

    I’m from India . Yeah they built many Public toilets But if we talk about maintenance then nobody cares . Authorities don’t care they just built and leave . Not only authorises but the people who using them don’t care . Who’s Using these toilets , Probably poor But they don’t have knowledge & most of them never goes to school. That’s problem. Government is Problem.

  33. milo

    September 14, 2020 at 8:06 am

    First video that didn’t comapared india to the west and bashed while completely ignoring the difference in challenges and people behavior.

    India has it’s own challenges and it can’t be directly compared to the west.
    Good job with the video.

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:45 pm

      I wish before 2022
      India covers 100 santisation coverage

  34. jar puppy

    September 14, 2020 at 9:50 am

    teach them wash hands and not to crap in the streat or pavements would be a start “” and yes ive been there shudders

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:44 pm

      This is what they r working on it
      Teaching them
      U can’t solve this in a min

  35. Prem Cooper

    September 14, 2020 at 10:07 am

    One of the most biggest problems in India….thank you for CNET approaching this 🙏

  36. Debayan Sutradhar

    September 14, 2020 at 10:32 am

    India was once the world leader in people with extreme poverty. It can surely overcome this as well!

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:41 pm

      16 percent poverty
      It’s in millions

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:42 pm

      After 2014 India govt started working fast on it
      Pace 2 of this project is already started
      I hope before 2022
      India complete s 100 Sanitisation coverage

    • Debayan Sutradhar

      September 14, 2020 at 6:46 pm

      @Naga Boy no, its 50 million (4℅) of the population living under extreme poverty. That is expected to be lesser than 3℅ by 2030.

      Nigeria has the largest no of people under extreme poverty (102 million).

      India once was the country with the largest number of poor people. Now its not :). Sanitation will surely be achieved soon

    • Naga Boy

      September 14, 2020 at 6:50 pm

      @Debayan Sutradhar Bai vo Extreme hai me
      Nor Mal vale ki baat kr rah hu

  37. The_Natives

    September 14, 2020 at 12:14 pm

    Watching this video on the toilet

  38. Raj Th

    September 14, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    You have no idea about ground report. You are conducting interviews with people who are 1 in 100 percentage who don’t have toilets. This company you interview have almost no presences in india. I have seen how situations changing in rural areas.

    Don’t just show these sides of India. Western media only see poor side of india. When they cover India they only go to slums like dharavi. Don’t you know the developed side of india. If not watch ” India In Detail” YouTube channel and You Will learn what truth you should tell Western audiences

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