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 cellphones are now connected to service in India’s emerging economy.
“It’s an irony, 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.
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