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In Your Opinion, What Percentage of Households Do Not Have Indoor Plumbing As Yet?

And if it is a high percentage, would this be a good idea for improving infrastructure?

Update:

I'm dealing with the U.S. only. I can still recall being in South Dakota over fifty years ago and none of the households in that town had indoor plumbing.

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  • Sarah
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    Well, 20% of ALL American Indian households don't have plumbing....and that's just our Indian population...so probably around 21-25%. http://www.census.gov/apsd/www/statbrief/sb95_9.pd...

    Alaska's population has 13% without plumbing....but overall, the US tends to be around 1-3% http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/datase...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    I actual have an indoor bathing room and a kitchen sink and the water that runs from it comes from indoor plumbing, so sure I actual have indoor plumbing. I stay in an house, each little thing exterior is public so i don't have something exterior. yet i'm going to declare "trees", trees is my answer. although, if this may be a riddle or some sh*t then possibly you ought to make that extra clean.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    A large contingent of the worlds population currently go without indoor plumbing...they barley have water to transport, let alone use it to fill toilets.

    Capitalism is what we have and the wealth of the nation rests in the hands of a few men. Attempting to improve the lives of others, (food...shelter....plumbing) would be a wonderful option, however even if the economy was stable no real movement of effort would be made.

    the world bank will just suck them all dry....again.

  • 1 decade ago

    'mebo' misread the question,lol.

    North Americans have no indoor plumbing,according to him!

    You will have to state what location you are talking about.For example,quite a few in rural West Virginia have no indoor plumbing whatsoever.Everyone certainly has it in Orange County,California.

    I found this article interesting,though it does not answer your question:

    http://www.theplumber.com/usa.html

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It is less than 1%, according to the 2000 census.

    "Nationwide, about 50,000 fewer households lacked complete plumbing in 2000 than in 1990, dropping from 721,693 homes (0.78%), to 670,986 homes (0.64%)."

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's not a high percentage. Yes, that would be a good place to spend stimulus money, instead of $30 million dollars to "save" the salt marsh mouse as Pelosi put in there.

  • 1 decade ago

    i think it's important to narrow this down

    are you talking world wide? are you talking in the US? by state?

    indoor plumbing generally equates to clean drinking water. i think we need to ensure that the world gets clean drinking water.

    we can do it, it's a matter of resources

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    5% across the country

    Plus if you dont pay your water bil technically speaking you have no indoor plumbing.

  • 1 decade ago

    probably about 147%

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    In North America? I would say that it is damn near 100%. Where are you talking?

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