Sanitation Crisis Quotes

Rome is the most dreadful cesspit … the great sewer of Tarquin itself would have been incapable of dealing with such a mass of filth.

We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population of California and put it in one city. Then you remove basic sanitation and medical services, and you have a ticking biological time bomb.

In India, more people have cell phones than access to a toilet

The city of gardens [New Delhi] has become the city of garbage.

Lack of access to basic sanitation facilities can be a traumatic experience for girls especially during menstruation period and have an adverse impact on their health.

Kids are dying from diarrhea ... that just shouldn't be in this day and age, and it's that kind of thing that needs to be changed. Enough is enough

Clean water is only as far away as the nearest tap, and there are taps everywhere. There's a faucet everywhere. But the reality is, the water in our toilets is cleaner than the water that most people are drinking.

Bangkok is a toilet without a flush.

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

These poor kids in Baghdad have no running water, no showers. They wipe with baby wipes. My heart goes out to them.

Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.

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