Sanitation vs.Communication - More mobile phones than toilets in India!

Hello again everyone,

In a recent study by a UN think-tank and shocking statistic was produced that India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the last count, nearly 1/2 of the country's 1.2 billion population yet only 366 million people - around 1/3 of the population had access to a toilet.

I think it is tragic that a country that is wealthy enough to have half the population connected do not have access to basic sanitation. The influx of availabilty of mobile phones maybe due to the efforts of mobile phone recycling companies in the UK to make affordable handsets available. This is an ethos that should be mirrored by sanitation companies and help to get more toilets available in India. This in turn would help to stop the spread of water-borne diseases and save lives.

The recycled phones have been saved from polluting the environment, as must the additional toilets save the spread of disease.

Until next time people keep recycling.