People often poke fun at toilets and sanitation issues, without understanding what a great resource they can be:

• Sanitation is vital for health.
• Sanitation is a good economic investment.
• Sanitation contributes to social development.
• Sanitation helps the environment.

Now is the time to act.  By changing public opinion around the world together we can influence political leaders to act now. It would cost $9.5 billion annual to halve the proportion of people in the world without access to basic sanitation by 2015.  This figure is equivalent to 1% of annual worldwide military spending. A modest redirection of global priorities could achieve so much.