Wednesday, April 14, 2010

India has more mobile phones than toilets!!!

As the country’s wealth continues to grow, almost half the population have a hand-held device but less than a third have access to proper sanitation.

The lack of flushing toilets has led to continuing problems of water-borne illness and millions of deaths, according to UN experts who published a nine-point prescription for achieving the world’s Millennium Development Goal for sanitation by 2015.

Their report on India, the world’s second most populous country, shows 600 million people – 54 per cent of the population – defecated in the open in 2008, causing a health disaster. More...

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