Celebrate World Toilet Day

...as you do every year, of course. This year you can try buying a sanitation-related gift to celebrate. These gifts don't actually go to your friends, sadly, but they do go directly to people who need them, happily. Items at varying price levels are available at http://shop.wateraid.org/browsecategory.aspx?catid=19. You can also go to http://www.oxfam.org/en/getinvolved/unwrapped, choose your country site, and search for "toilet". This is useful stuff given that 1.2 billion people don't have access to any sanitation facilities, forcing policymakers and sanitation experts to resort to the inelegant phrase "open defecation". Happy toilet buying!


Effort involved: there are fewer sanitation-related products for sale than, say, shoes, so there should be less agonizing over choice.

Image from: http://livethelife.org.za/blog/2011/03/watch-where-you-dive/