It is the International Year of Sanitation and Thursday is World Water Day. This is the sort of thing you learn if you listen to R4 Woman’s Hour instead of bringing the PAYE records up to date.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/01/2008_12_wed.shtml
“2.6 billion people worldwide have nowhere to go to the loo – one of the shocking statistics exposed in a new book co-authored by Maggie Black (and Ben Fawcett). Fittingly called ‘The Last Taboo’, it broaches the topic of excrement and the problem it poses especially for girls in the developing world, who are often kept from going to school due to a lack of proper facilities.”
You can see the U.N. website:
That raises all sorts of questions in my head. Like “what alternatives exist to loo paper?”
My mind is a very odd place.
Matt - you and I think alike!
I do have a fascinating book on sanitation without water, by the way…