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Recycling human waste in India to improve sanitation

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India needs to build hundreds of thousands of toilets every month over the next five years, if it is to come close to meeting United Nations global development targets by 2015.

Even as the country's economy continues to boom - and technology is transforming many lives - more than half a billion Indians still lack access to basic sanitation.

Chris Morris has been to one of Delhi's more unusual museums to find out what is being done to improve the situation.

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