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Greater access to cell phones than toilets in India: UN

United Nations University
14-Apr-2010

UNU-INWEH report offers 9-point prescription for achieving Millennium Development Goal for sanitation

Far more people in India have access to a cell phone than to a toilet and improved sanitation, according to UN experts who published today a 9-point prescription for achieving the world's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for sanitation by 2015.

They also urge the world community to set a new target beyond the MDG (which calls for a 50 percent improvement in access to adequate sanitation by 2015) to the achievement of 100 percent coverage by 2025.

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