Water
Can you live with the fact that 6,000 children die every day from diseases caused by poor sanitation and dirty water? We can't.
Neither could Shane Jacobson or Damian Walshe-Howling, so they got together and had a chat about it...
Repeat this fact to your friends and family.
November 19, 2008 is World Toilet Day
Ok, you can stop laughing now - as Kenny (Oops, we mean Shane Jacobson) explains in the video above - Water and Sanitation are critical for survival and killing people every day.
World Toilet Day is your chance to stop and reflect on the seriousness of this issue which we simply don't even consider most days here in Australia.
In a country like Australia we are able to leave a tap running or have a shower longer than we need and we don’t even realise how lucky we are. Despite living in a drought, we have so much more water than those in the developing world.
It’s crazy to think that in the 21st century a resource that is second in importance to oxygen is virtually unavailable to a billion people. As human beings, we’ve been to the moon and can perform miracles such as cloning, yet we still can’t provide everyone with clean water and sanitation that they need.
As global citizens we have the power to change this.
