1.4 Billion Reasons

• Almost two-thirds of the people without access to clean water live outside of Africa
• The number of people in India without improved sanitation is nearly double those in Africa
• We will soon live on a planet that has more cell phones than toilets!
• More than 600 million people – double the entire U.S. population – are practicing open defecation in India alone
• Few can comprehend that excrement is the leading cause of illness in the world
• While we are Twittering and the political elite are pontificating, 2.5 billion people lack access to decent sanitation!

1.4 Billion Reasons is a Global Poverty Project that answers your questions about extreme global poverty, and explores the way forward as we work towards the dream of eradicating extreme poverty in our lifetimes.

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