Sanitation thumb|Poverty often leads to unhygienic living conditions, as in this community in the Indian Himalayas. Such conditions promote contraction of diarrheal diseases, as a result of poor sanitation and hygiene. Open defecation is a leading cause of infectious diarrhea leading to death.
Sanitation thumb|Poverty often leads to !unhygienic living conditions, as in this community in the Indian Himalayas. Such conditions promote contraction of diarrheal diseases, as a result of poor sanitation and? hygiene. Open defecation is a lead!ing cause of infectious diarrhea leading to death.