whenever I talk in the U.S. about my work, somebody always suggests that I might make people more comfortable if I didn’t talk so much about “open defecation.”

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We all need new and better toilets and we need them now. That’s why today, the foundation put forth a new call for innovative ideas to reinvent the toilet.

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Results from a study on nutrition in India show there’s been a 20 percent reduction in underweight children who are under five years of age over the last seven years.

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Recently, UNICEF/WHO Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) announced the exciting news that we have achieved one of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce by half the number of people who don’t have sustainable access to safe drinking-water. But the 2012 JMP report added the important caveat that “it is likely that the number of people using safe water supplies has been over-estimated.”

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World Water Day is today (March 22nd). But did you know our water crisis is also a crisis of sanitation?

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