For Most of the World, Sanitation Is a Sh**show

Send us Fan Mail Every morning, a small mechanical whirlpool disappears our waste, and we never think about it again. But for 3.4 billion people worldwide — roughly 40% of humanity — that convenience simply doesn't exist. In this episode, we follow the pipe. We trace what "safely managed sanitation" actually means (hint: having a toilet isn't the same as being safe), why 564,000 people die every year from entirely preventable sanitation-related disease, and how a condition called environmenta...