Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
There's over a billion people on this planet that don't have access to clean drinking water.
There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water, and it's horrific.
Some countries have more water than others - some can afford to use clean water to flush their poop away, and some can't.
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.
Water is life, and clean water means health.
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.
I couldn't imagine not having clean water.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.