The UN General Assembly declared the year 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. The goal is to raise awareness and to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target to reduce by half the proportion of the 2,6 billion people without access to basic sanitation by 2015.
More than 2.6 billion people – roughly 40 percent of the world’s population –lack what most of us take for granted: a toilet.
