WaterAids Margaret Batty Interview with Lulu Gaboo on Africa Digest on SABCs Africa Channel Radio

Nobel Peace Prize winner and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has warned that economic losses due to poor water and sanitation access globally are costing 260 billion US dollars annually.

Sirleaf was addressing the UN Secretary-General's High-level panel that is meeting in Monrover, Liberia this week to address the future of international poverty reduction efforts. President Sirleaf, is also Goodwill Ambassador for water, sanitation and hygiene in Africa.

According to a 2012 report of the international charity, WaterAid the lives of 2.5 million people around the world would be saved every year if everybody had access to safe water and adequate sanitation.

Director of Policy and Campaigns at WaterAid, Margaret Batty elaborates in an interview with Lulu Gaboo the presenter of Africa Digest which is a radio show on Channel Africa from SABC.