Rose George

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

British Journalist

Yusuf Hamied

Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.

Indian Scientist

Kat Graham

Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.

American Actress

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.

American Public Servant

Bjorn Lomborg

Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.

Danish Scientist

Deepak Chopra

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

American Speaker

Ram Nath Kovind

Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.

Indian Politician

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.

American Politician

Denzel Washington

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

American Actor

Jim Yong Kim

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

South Korean Public Servant

Relates to health at a community or city-wide level, not individual cleanliness.

Public Health

Often discussed in the context of international aid and developing countries.

Global Issue

Poor sanitation is linked to negative outcomes like disease outbreaks.

Negative Outcomes

Used in engineering and construction to refer to waste management systems.

Technical Term

Important in designing cities. Affects infrastructure decisions.

Urban Planning

Modern sanitation systems focus on sustainability and environmental impact.

Environmental Concern

Applies to strict cleanliness protocols in medical and healthcare settings.

Healthcare Focus

Sanitation is a key measure in preventing the spread of contagious diseases.

Disease Prevention

 financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, population migration, sanitation and water, and subsidies and trade barriers. We believe that these in many ways encompass the biggest problems in the world. The obvious question would be to ask, what do you think are the biggest things?

Bjorn Lomborg: Global...

 Countries that have only recently begun the process of industrialization typically see an increase in life expectancy and a fall in child mortality rates as a result of improvements in medicine, sanitation, and food supply. While birth rates remain constant, leading to a population boom.

Population pyramids:...

 we make an assumption, that we think that, if people need something, we don't have to make them want that. And I think that's a mistake. And there's some indications around the world that this is starting to change. One example is sanitation. We know that a million and a half children

Melinda French Gates:...

 full of all of these great causes important causes why this issue I think for me as I started to look at issues of extreme poverty and and wanted to get involved water and sanitation just under it was like it undergirded everything it was just so massive and and I didn't

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 gets into everything we how we talk about it, how we encourage people to study, our jokes, our codes And it ultimately determines how innovative we can be. So, that's the first reason we don't innovate in sanitation.

The taboo secret to...

 seen progress on sanitation I can see three reasons first let's look in the mirror we have it too easy we flesh and forget we know there's some system deep underground that will deal with it this very absence of and

Why We Need To Talk Shit...

 by keeping us alive when our genes, sometimes combined with infectious diseases, would have killed us. Antibiotics, vaccines, clean water and good sanitation all make differences between our genes less important.

Is human evolution...

 from the funeral industry. It's a multi-billion-dollar industry, and its economic model is based on the principle of protection, sanitation and beautification of the corpse. Whether they mean to or not,

A burial practice that...

 One out of ten people in the world can't actually be sure that their water is clean and safe to drink. Why is that? Inadequate sanitation, poor protection of drinking water sources, and improper hygiene

When is water safe to...

 More than 65 percent of India's population lives without indoor sanitation. Heading into the night barefoot to answer the call of nature is the norm in rural areas