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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.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water, and it's horrific.

The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

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.