The importance of clean water and basic sanitation should be at the forefront of everyone's mind today as it's World Plumbing Day.
A chance for everyone to do their part in raising awareness of the issues surrounding safe, affordable drinking water for everyone.
This infographic from www.bestheating.com outlines the journey that plumbing has made in the near 3000 years since the Greeks first thought of sewage systems.
Please feel free to share this information and do what you can to raise awareness of World Plumbing Day 2016.
I said to my little girl who just came from Ethiopia - '...and do you remember, when you were 3 and living in Ethiopia, how did you bath?
We did not bath, she told me, playing with water, I don't remember having a shower - we went into the woods to have one...'
Hearing these words, from the lips of my beautiful little girl, some statistics suddenly hit me: