Your article says the numbers are backwards from what you are saying.
It is saying only 20%
don't have indoor plumbing.
And of those, most have an outhouse toilet. so they do own toilets. They just do not connect to municipal sewage plumbing.
Speaking of...
I was wondering how that compares to rural USA (as I hear a lot of off the grid houses use septic tanks).
Well, USA is a much better figure (0.39% of households, aka half a million households) but still disgracefully high.
but while russia has been improving in recent years, USA has been getting worse. And it is worst and also getting worst fastest in bluest areas (what a surprise!)
Renters and people of color are most likely to be living without water or flushing toilets in some of America’s wealthiest cities, new research shows
www.theguardian.com
Although unlike russia where the least access is in rural areas.
In USA the worst areas are very wealthy Democrat cities like San Fran. Homo capital of the world.
Where it is due to poverty, and it is rising sharply.
goddamned democrats ruin everything they touch