It's a s**t-hot day to celebrate World Toilet Day!
Friday is usually anything but a crap day, but today is not just any Friday - today is the day we celebrate the World Toilet Day (see what we did there?).
Essentially, the founders of this awareness day want us all to give a s**t, about s**t.
So here are some hard facts that you might never have heard:
- More people have died due to poor water and sanitation than in all the wars of the 20th century combined.
- 2.6 billion people worldwide are without access to proper sanitation which kills 1.8 million people, mostly children every year.
- Diarrhea diseases kill five times as many children in the developing world as HIV/AIDS, that means 5,000 children dying every day.
To create a bit of a stir about this the clever people over at www.flushtracker.com has created the best invention since sliced bread and bog roll - a poo tracker - a website that allows you to track your poo on its journey through the sewer system and into the unknown.
Apart from being a hilarious way to start your morning the point of this exercise is to highlight the greatness of our sewage system, something we are fortunate to have but something most people in the world still don't have access to.
Earlier this year we sent our Vanguard reporter Adam Yamaguchi to India, Singapore and Indonesia to see what is being done about sanitation.
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