Improving global access to sanitation can be a foundation for better health, nutrition and education The toilet. We spend about three years of our lives sitting on it. But how much time do we spend thinking about it? Most people take a clean, flushable toilet for granted. Yet the world is in the grip of a sanitation crisis. 2.5 billion People live without access to a toilet. Of these, over one billion defecate in the open. Poor sanitation has serious impacts on health, nutrition, education, gender equality and sustainable economic development. While the target on water has been met five years ahead of schedule, the sanitation target is the most off-track of all of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With all the efforts of governments, IGOs and NGOs, why does the sanitation crisis stubbornly persist and how will solving it support other key issues in social and economic development?

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