120,000 tonnes of faecal sludge: why India needs a market for human waste

Residents use an improvised raft to cross a sewage canal at a slum in Mumbai Image: REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui
Sharmishta Sivaramakrishnan
Community Specialist, Young Global Leaders - Asia, World Economic Forum Geneva

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