Keeping sanitation in the international spotlight.

摘要

2008 is the International Year of Sanitation. At this year's World Water Day (March 22) sanitation was at last given the spotlight to help catch the attention of the international community. Although such attention is most welcome, it is a serious indictment on the international community that the arguments for separating human waste from direct human contact-what improved sanitation actually means-need to be made and won again.