Villagers gather June 1, 2003, to draw water from a well in Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat. According to the 2001 census, some 700 million people live in villages in India out of a total population of more than one billion, and 200 million constitute what is officially referred to as the “urban poor.” About three in every four people have no public sanitary facilities, such as toilets, and even fewer have access to safe drinking water.
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