The world officially now has more cell phones than toilets

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Six of the world’s seven billion people have mobile phones... but only 4.5billion have a toilet says UN report

Rapid global proliferation of mobile phone use in last three decades

Shocking statistic prompts campaign to improve sanitation

U.N. says 22 countries account for 80 per cent of open defecation in world

India has almost 1billion mobiles but only 30 per cent have sanitation

Six of the world's seven billion people have mobile phones - but only 4.5 billion have a toilet, according to a U.N. report.


The shocking statistic has prompted the international organisation to launch a global campaign to improve sanitation for the 2.5 billion people whose health is at risk.


U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson called their plight 'a silent disaster' that reflects the extreme poverty and huge inequalities in the world today.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2297508/Six-world-s-seven-billion-people-mobile-phones--4-5billion-toilet-says-UN-report.html#ixzz2OR9WpHDK

[Warren DeMontague]

1. shit, I gotta make a call.

[MADem]

2. And many of those cell phones have fallen IN to toilets!!!! nt