US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti Visits Lucknow To Celebrate ‘World Toilet Day’

US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti visited Lucknow to mark World Toilet Day, celebrating India’s progress on sanitation. Garcetti highlighted India’s dedication to ensuring health, dignity, and opportunity for everyone, emphasizing the significant strides made in the mission. He mentioned the vision of Prime Minister Modi and the contributions of states like Uttar Pradesh. The […]

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by Drishya Madhur - November 19, 2024, 2:10 pm

US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti visited Lucknow to mark World Toilet Day, celebrating India’s progress on sanitation. Garcetti highlighted India’s dedication to ensuring health, dignity, and opportunity for everyone, emphasizing the significant strides made in the mission. He mentioned the vision of Prime Minister Modi and the contributions of states like Uttar Pradesh. The United States, as a proud partner, has collaborated on innovative solutions, including designing toilets, recycling water, and transforming plastic waste into portable toilets. Garcetti stressed that the work is not complete until every individual has access to a toilet, expressing admiration for India’s efforts and the lessons that can be shared globally.

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Garcetti said, “I am here today in Lucknow to celebrate World Toilet Day and to see the incredible results that India has brought to this mission to make sure everybody has health, everybody has dignity, everybody has opportunity.” He further stated, “We’ve seen Prime Minister Modi’s vision, we’ve seen states like UP take that, and the United States is a proud partner, designing toilets together, recycling water together, finding ways that we can take plastic off the streets and turn them into portable toilets. And I think until every human being has a toilet that she or he can use, our work is undone. But I am very inspired by India. We see this across Bharat, and now we want to take those lessons around the world together…”