More cell phones in India than toilets

[Prometheus]

ha ha ha. and they want to become permanent member of UNSC .. lol

 

[Peshwa]

Just like religion....Hygine and sanitation is ones personal business.....

I dont understand why people....esp Pakistanis and Chinese are so hell bent on supervising our sanitation situation.......Let us do our business in private

 

[desiman]

ha ha ha. and they want to become permanent member of UNSC .. lol

ha ha ha and we will become one soon

 

[gubbi]

because they don't have luxury of doing potty in open with beautiful nature infrontof your eyes..

BTW it really feels great while doing in open..near a river or, some water source..however i have never done in fields..

Oh how I miss doing that here, although I do try to sneak a leak here and there whenever on long nature drives!!

@ Jha, don't do it in the fields, especially after harvest season or during the rainy season. You don't want burnt/harvested stumps poking your rear or new blades of grass tickling your coinsack while doing the "bijness". I have had the pleasure of experiencing both, not to mention hungry pigs looking for warm breakfast in the mornings!!

 

[Mirza Jatt]

Oh how I miss doing that here, although I do try to sneak a leak here and there whenever on long nature drives!!

@ Jha, don't do it in the fields, especially after harvest season or during the rainy season. You don't want burnt/harvested stumps poking your rear or new blades of grass tickling your coinsack while doing the "bijness". I have had the pleasure of experiencing both, not to mention hungry pigs looking for warm breakfast in the mornings!!

and what if some snake coils in front of you while you are busy sitting and singing....ye khula asmaan...

 

[Khalid Ibn Walid]

this is so funny,but what is more funny are the comments that i just read.

 

[Hutchroy]

More cell phones in India than toilets: UN report

Far more Indians have access to cell phones than to toilet and basic sanitation, a new UN report has said.

"It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, about half cannot afford the basic necessity and dignity of a toilet," said Zafar Adeel, Director of United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.

"Popular education about the health dangers of poor sanitation is also needed. But this simple measure could do more to save lives, especially those of young people, improve health and help pull India and other countries in similar circumstances out of poverty than any alternative investment.

It can also serve as a very significant boost to the local economy," he added.

The report is produced by experts who prescribe ways to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on sanitation by 2015.

The research shows roughly 366 million people (31 per cent of the population) in India had access to improved sanitation in 2008. Other data, meanwhile, shows 545 million cell phones are now connected to service in India's emerging economy. The number of cell phones per 100 people has skyrocketed from 0.35 in year 2000-01 to about 45 today.

Worldwide, some 1.1 billion people defecate in the open and data shows progress in creating access to toilets and sanitation lags far behind world MDG targets, even as mobile phone connections continue to a predicted 1 billion in India by 2015, according to the study.

The report says it costs about USD 300 to build a toilet, and worldwide an estimated USD 358 billion is needed between now and 2015 to reach the MDG for sanitation.

"The world can expect, however, a return of between USD 3 and USD 34 for every dollar spent on sanitation, realised through reduced poverty and health costs and higher productivity, an economic and humanitarian opportunity of historic proportions," said Adeel.

If current global trends continue, the World Health Organisation and UNICEF, in a report titled "Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water" in March, predicted a 1 billion person shortfall from the sanitation goal in 2015 -- in all, 2.7 billion will lack access.

"This report notes cultural taboos surround this issue in some countries, preventing progress," said Adeel. "Anyone who shirks the topic as repugnant, minimizes it as undignified, or considers unworthy those in need should let others take over for the sake of 1.5 million children and countless others killed each year by contaminated water and unhealthy sanitation."

The nine recommendations to meet the MDG include addressing sanitation in the context of global poverty, making sanitation a primary focus within the broader context of water management and access to safe water and integrating sanitation into community life.

Another report released last year by the WHO and UNICEF found that India has the largest number of persons that defecate in the open worldwide around 665 million.
More cell phones in India than toilets: UN report

The Figures stated for "Toilet Availability" – by Mr. Zafar Adeel, Director of United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health - are for 2005-2006 and at that time India had about 150 Million Mobile Phones and possibly 40 Million Land Line Phones.

Of course, it also helps that Mr. Adeel is a Pakistani (At no time do I doubt his competence)

BTW : India’s Mobile Phone Subscriber details are

563.73 Million basis end February 2010

The Figure should be 580 Million for end March 2010 which is "a bit" more than 545 Million quoted in the Article.

 

[jha]

I cant believe people are so much interested in counting our toilets..

actually most of us do it as a chance to enjoy the nature when its still enjoyable....early morning ...nadi ka kinara...aur besure awaz mein "yeh hasin waadiyan -yeh khula aasman.."...does morning start any better than this....

those who have not experienced..do it...its worth..

 

[Peshwa]

Oh how I miss doing that here, although I do try to sneak a leak here and there whenever on long nature drives!!

@ Jha, don't do it in the fields, especially after harvest season or during the rainy season. You don't want burnt/harvested stumps poking your rear or new blades of grass tickling your coinsack while doing the "bijness". I have had the pleasure of experiencing both, not to mention hungry pigs looking for warm breakfast in the mornings!!

That was the "icing" on the cake

Dont think Ive laughed this hard in a while.....Kudos Gubbi

 

[Forrest Griffin]

Aren't indians tried of using the bathroom on the side of the streets by now?

Well at least they can use their cell phones and tell other people where not to walk.

 

[brahmastra]

 

[arslan_treen]

And the irony is, I stay alone and I have 2 toilets but use only one. the other one is unused ;-)

sharing is caring buddy , and who the hell actually cares as long as u get the signals loool

 

[idune]

When anaimal botley fluid marketed as drink, sense of hygine personal or otherwise take turn for the worse.More than money its matter of priority and preception.

 

[Cityboy]

The another thng is that we can use the field potty as human fertilizer. The best . Better than chemical fertilizer. There r so many advantages of doing potty in open yara

 

[applesauce]

The another thng is that we can use the field potty as human fertilizer. The best . Better than chemical fertilizer. There r so many advantages of doing potty in open yara

some US farmer wanted to do that but due to concerns about bacteria/virus/parasites and other sanitation problems, including if the waste came from a drug user, shut his ideas down.