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More people globally have access to mobile phones than to safely managed toilets, with approximately 4.5 billion people lacking proper sanitation facilities.
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More people globally have access to mobile phones than to safely managed toilets, with approximately 4.5 billion people lacking proper sanitation facilities.
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Matt Damon's humorous video spotlights sanitation crisis
By Gregory M. Lamb, CS Monitor, February 13, 2013 If citing troubling statistics won't work, try humor. And social media, of course.
That's the approach being taken by actor Matt Damon in support of the Water.org charity he has co-founded.
In a YouTube video that the organization hopes will go viral Damon announced Feb. 12 at a fake "news conference" that he is beginning a "toilet strike," saying: "In protest of this global tragedy, until this issue is resolved, until everyone has access to clean water and sanitation ... I will not go to the bathroom."
The reporters, played by actors, are confused and stunned, with one only able to ask "Whaaa?"
Then Damon slips in a quick, serious message about the worldwide water and sanitation crisis.
"Anybody have any idea what invention has saved more lives than any other in the history of humankind?" he asks the "reporters." "The toilet.... What's even more shocking is the catastrophic worldwide lack of clean water and sanitation. 780 million people--that's twice the population the United States--lack access to clean water. 2.5 billion people lack access to a toilet or basic sanitation. I mean more people have cell phones that have toilets."
Damon encourages people to donate $25 to the cause.
Nonprofits groups are trying humor rather than pathos to get their message out, Jessica Mason, a YouTube spokesperson, told the Los Angeles Times. "We're seeing a lot of upcoming PSA [public service announcement] campaigns that take a more humorous approach," she says, "because, let's be honest, it's so much better than watching ... really sad little puppies being beaten on TV."
"People just aren't shocked by statistics anymore," adds Mike McCamon, who heads Water.org's community outreach efforts. To be effective, however, the Damon video needed to be more than just humorous, says Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch, Water.org's chief marketing officer. "But if it's funny, and it makes you think, that's very powerful."