Aug 21 - With 2.5 billion people around the world living without a toilet, sanitation experts are pushing to get this most basic need onto the political agenda.
Better sanitation improves human health, promotes economic and social development and also helps the environment.
SOUNDBITE: Jon Lane, Executive Director with the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council
That's the arguments development professionals want governments and businesses to hear to help improve the sanitation facilities of the 40 percent of the world's population who live without a toilet.
Michelle Carlile-Alkhouri reports.
Georgian women living in Bulgaria attend a prayer in Bachkovo monastery, some 160km (99miles) east of the capital Sofia August 21, 2008, during prayer for the victims in the conflict with ...
