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India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets (AP)

3:31am GMT, Sunday, 31 October 2010

This Oct. 19, 2010 photo shows tall buildings behind  makeshift houses in the Rafiq Nagar slum in Mumbai, India. When U.S. President Barack Obama visits India Nov. 6, 2010, he will find a country of startlingly uneven development and perplexing disparities, where more people have cell phones than access to a toilet, according to the United Nations. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - The Mumbai slum of Rafiq Nagar has no clean water for its shacks made of ripped tarp and bamboo. No garbage pickup along the rocky, pocked earth that serves as a road. No power except from haphazard cables strung overhead illegally.



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