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More than half of women in Mumbai, India don’t have indoor toilets. On average, women hold their bladders for 13 hours each day.

Women in India agitate for their right to pee

November 25, 2014Development

About 600 million Indians live without toilets, and women and girls bear the brunt of that shortage. While men can and do relieve themselves almost anywhere, many women must choose between scarce, dangerous public facilities or expensive pay toilets when they need to pee.

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