.jpg)
ZuLoo Poodcast
What if toilets, poop and sanitation are the hidden forces shaping global health, human dignity, and survival worldwide?
ZuLoo Poodcast is a podcast about toilets, poop, and global sanitation, exploring how sanitation impacts public health, wellness, hygiene, and humanity through funny facts, real stories, and impactful conversations.
👉 Learn more about ZuLoo’s mission and global health sanitation work at https://zuloo.org
Welcome to ZuLoo Poodcast, the podcast that talks openly about poop, toilets, global health and sanitation so the rest of the world doesn’t have to ignore why it matters. Each episode dives into sanitation news, global health conversations, public health insights, and quirky humor to uncover how toilets quietly influence daily life, health outcomes, and human dignity across the globe.
From funny toilet facts and surprising poop trivia to serious discussions about sanitation access, toilet innovation, hygiene education, and public health systems, ZuLoo Poodcast shines a light on one of the most overlooked topics in the world. A topic that affects everyone, everywhere.
Why Listen? Because sanitation affects everything. Health. Education. Gender equity. Environmental sustainability. Economic opportunity.
If you care about public health, global sanitation, wellness, sustainable innovation, or simply love learning unexpected facts that actually matter, this podcast is for you. ZuLoo Poodcast makes complex sanitation issues easy to understand, surprisingly entertaining, and deeply human. You will laugh, learn, and start seeing toilets and sanitation in a completely new way.
What You’ll Hear on ZuLoo Poodcast
✅ Real conversations about global sanitation and public health
✅ Funny, fascinating poop facts and toilet stories
✅ Interviews with sanitation experts, innovators, and impact leaders
✅ Stories showing how toilets impact health, wellness, and human dignity
✅ Insight into the global sanitation crisis and real world solutions
✅ How toilet technology and sanitation innovation are changing lives
This is an educational sanitation podcast that does not sound like a lecture. It is honest, curious, approachable, and grounded in real human stories.
Meet the Hosts
Jocelyn Gardiner
Jocelyn Gardiner is a sanitation advocate and co-host of ZuLoo Poodcast with a passion for storytelling, education, and breaking down taboos around toilets, poop, and hygiene. She brings curiosity, humor, and heart to conversations about sanitation access, public health, and why talking about toilets can actually change lives.
Darin Mangum
Darin Mangum is co-host of ZuLoo Poodcast and a leader in impact-driven conversations around sanitation, wellness, and global health. With a grounded and thoughtful approach, Darin connects real-world sanitation challenges to practical solutions, highlighting how access to safe toilets plays a critical role in improving quality of life worldwide.
About ZuLoo
ZuLoo is on a mission to help solve the global sanitation crisis by improving access to clean, safe toilets and hygiene education. ZuLoo Poodcast is one way the organization raises awareness, sparks conversation, and drives action around sanitation and public health.
ZuLoo Poodcast
Carrying a Global Legacy Forward: Kumar Dilip on Sanitation, Dignity, & the Future of Sulabh (#104)
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
What does it take to carry forward one of the most important sanitation movements in the world? In this episode of the ZuLoo Poodcast, we sit down in New Delhi with Kumar Dilip, President of Sulabh International.
Kumar shares the legacy of his father, Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, whose work helped eradicate manual scavenging through the invention of the twin-pit toilet system. From sanitation and biogas to education, menstrual hygiene, food security, and community-based solutions, this conversation explores how toilets connect to total human health and why sanitation cannot exist in silos.
What You Will Learn
✅ How the twin-pit toilet system helped eliminate manual scavenging
✅ Why sanitation is inseparable from dignity, education, and gender equity
✅ How Sulabh scaled community-based sanitation across India
✅ What it means to lead a global organization rooted in service
✅ Why the future of sanitation must focus on total human health
Like the Poodcast? Click here to become a supporter of the show!
Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to the ZuLoo Pōōdcast and sponsor message
01:18 Recording in New Delhi at Sulabh headquarters
03:00 The vision of Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak and Sulabh’s beginnings
07:35 Ending manual scavenging through sanitation innovation
11:35 How the twin-pit toilet system works
15:38 Expanding sanitation into education and menstrual hygiene
18:22 Food security, water access, and total human health
22:45 Stepping into leadership after loss and legacy
26:53 The future of Sulabh and global expansion
Key Takeaways
🔹 Sanitation innovation can eliminate generational injustice
🔹 Toilets are foundational to health, dignity, and opportunity
🔹 Community participation determines sanitation success
🔹 Sustainable solutions must adapt to culture and context
Guest Bio
Kumar Dilip is the President of Sulabh International and a global advocate for sanitation, dignity, and human-centered development. Having worked with Sulabh since 1997, Kumar now leads the organization forward, expanding its mission beyond toilets to include education, menstrual hygiene management, food security, water access, and research grounded in real-world impact.
Poo-News and Show Notes:
- Did you know that Sulabh has built over 1.3 million household toilets and more than 10,000 public toilet complexes across India which serve an estimated 20 million people daily? 🤯🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽🚽💩
- Shop at the ZuLoo Marketplace today -- where a portion of each sale goes towards ZuLoo's global mission! 🌍🚽💚
- Donate here to help ZuLoo build toilets!
- Join our new Facebook Group: ZuLoo - Safe and Clean Toilets for All Humanity!
- Like the Pōōdcast?
Copyright (c) ZuLoo Media LLC. All rights reserved. The Pōōdcast is the property of ZuLoo Media LLC (the “Publisher”). The opinions expressed on the Pōōdcast are not necessarily that of the Publisher or of its parent company, ZuLoo, Inc. (“ZuLoo”), or its affiliates. References to third-parties, or links thereto, do not constitute an endorsement by such persons of the Pōōdcast, the Publisher, ZuLoo, or their affiliates, products, or services. ZuLoo Humanitarian is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charity affiliated with ZuLoo. The ZuLoo Marketplace is owned and operated by ZuLoo Enterprises USA LLC, a ZuLoo-affiliated company. Questions may be directed to legal@zuloo.com.