2008 - International Year of sanitation - United Nations.

To halve by 2015 proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation - Millennium Development Goal.

The day every of us gets a toilet to use, I shall know that our country has reached the pinnacle of progress - Jawaharlal Nehru, Former Prime Minister of India.

Water is life: Sanitation is dignity.

One sixth (1.1 billion) of the world population do not have easy access to safe drinking water.

Half of the world population (2.4 billon) do not have access to adequate sanitation.

2.2 million children die every year from diseases connected with lack of access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation and 6000 children every day.

An average person in the developing world used 10 lirtes of water every day whereas in UK it is 135 litres.

Washing hands with soap and water can reduce diarrhea disease by one third.