Coming Up Short without Sanitation, 2013. Water and Sanitation Program.
A Community Sanitation Program by the Indian Government Helped Children Grow Taller and Healthier in the State of Maharashtra. Children living in villages that received sanitation motivation treatment grew taller on average. Research done by Vogl (2011) suggests that taller children are more likely to lead healthy and economically productive lives and to develop closer to their cognitive potentials. The village-level sanitation intervention caused an important improvement in the height of children under five.
