United Nations – The United Nations says six billion of the world’s seven billion people have mobile phones — but only 4.5 billion have access to toilets or latrines.
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So the U.N. is launching a global campaign to improve sanitation for the 2.5 billion people who don’t have it.
U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson calls their plight “a silent disaster” that reflects the extreme poverty and huge inequalities in the world today.
Eliasson said Thursday that toilets and open defecation, which is a fact of life for 1.1 billion people, are rarely talked about at the U.N.
But he said the problem must be addressed immediately for the world to meet the U.N. goal of halving the proportion of people without access to sanitation by 2015.
U.N. Talking. Defecation. Sounds about right.
Why doesn’t the U.N. just set up a call-in center for the 6 billion people with phones to call to find available toilets?
If they are talking about cell phones, maybe they should discuss portable toilets.
Porta potti portable toilets- will become the next big thing 🙂
Boy oh boy!! Bored #1 has really set the standards for commentary on this story really high.
indicates what people think are really important. defecating in public doesn’t bother some people as much as being out of touch does. kind of put’s Maslow’s theory out the window.
FINALLY the U.N. is talking about issues they are somewhat in touch with. (I was waiting for them to condenm Israel for the univeral lack of toilets. Hold your breath)
do you realize that most of stores wile you do Sunday shopping in Brooklyn if you need to use the toilet they always comply with an answer the toilet is broken or its says its out of order !! sounds there is a big demand for plumbers…
Can’t find a toilet? That explains what they have been doing to the Israeli ambassadors for so long.
I don’t want to sound crude, but, in order to answer nature’s call, you don’t necessarily need a toilet, but to keep in touch (aside from smoke signals etc.) you do need a phone or other electronic device.