We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance.
Sanitation is more important than Independence.
Over 1 billion people have no access to clean drinking water, and more than 2. 9 billion have no access to sanitation services. The reality is that a child dies every eight seconds from drinking contaminated water, and the sanitation trend is getting sharply worse, mostly because of the worldwide drift of the rural peasantry to urban slums.
You will never solve poverty without solving water and sanitation.
Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.