STOCKHOLM, Aug 16 (IPS) – There are more than 2.6 billion people, roughly 42 percent of the world’s population, waiting in line for toilets that just do not exist.

That’s a reality, says the United Nations, which will launch the “International Year of Sanitation”, come November.

“No private toilets, no public toilets, no toilets anywhere,” chimes in the London-based non-governmental organisation End Water Poverty, following a survey of some of the world’s poorest nations in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.