Life without a toilet

(02:07) Report

Aug 21 - With billions around the world living without a toilet, sanitation experts are pushing to get this most basic need on the political agenda.

Better sanitation improves human health, promotes economic and social development and also helps the environment.

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.

SOUNDBITE: Jon Lane, Executive Director with the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

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