households in rural areas are deemed not deprived if they have some form of sanitation including latrines with removal and disposal of waste neither aboveground nor in rivers or seas households are said to be energy poor when they do not consume enough energy to meet their daily requirements and use fuel that is hazardous to the health of their members nussbaumer and others the resources of households have been linked to the level of toxicity and the efficiency of the fuel that they use with the worst fuels being waste matter wood and charcoal in that order duflo and others