WaterAid Video - Getting toilets off the street in the developing world

17 Jan 2008, Source: Reuters

A new campaign calls for the introduction of basic sanitation to help end the cycle of economic deprivation in the developing world. WaterAid says thousands of people, especially children, are dying every day because they lack access to clean water and toilets. The UK-based charity says their plight is the silent emergency and, along with the United Nations, it’s lobbying wealthier nations to take urgent action.

Link to view the WaterAid video

The opening sequence shows a clip from one of WaterAid’s four “Pooing in public” viral videos. The videos, released on World Toilet Day, 19 November 2007, aim to draw attention to the problem of open defecation by portraying Londoners being “caught short” in their city.

See: WaterAid: Pooing in Public, with links to four YouTube clips