• 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.

    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.
    "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation expands its sanitation programme" by Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.