The United Nations General Assembly has named the year 2008 as the International Year of Sanitation (I think its like the dog on the Chinese New Year calendar, next year may be the International year of Fire, or Ice. j/k) The goal of this project is to raise awareness about issues surrounding water sanitation and highlight the astounding number of people who live without clean water in this advanced society. Sadly, only because we already missed it, was World Water Day on March 20. Also, the United Nations is trying to raise awareness for their Millenium Development Goal for 2015 to reduce half the population, 2.6 billion, without access to basic sanitation. The campaign slogan in New York read, “Come stand up for those who can’t sit down” haha

http://esa.un.org/iys/