Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Sitting on the Toilet - Now Mobile in Nigeria

Watching this report from CNN.com definitely brought a giggle, but this is quite a serious issue considering the amount of work by many organizations around the world to end the global "toilet crisis."

The toilet is commonplace in homes and and public places in developed countries, but in the developing and underdeveloped worlds, sometimes a toilet is a luxury (an estimated 2.6 billion people do not have access to a toilet). One Nigerian businessman realized the scarcity of public toilets in Lagos and started the country's first (and right now only) mobile toilet service.

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