Glastonbury revellers tell Gordon 'It should be child's play'

2 July 2009

This year's Glastonbury festival saw over 18,060 festival goers sign WaterAid's petition to the UK Prime Minister, urging him to be a 'sanitation champion'.

The warm and sunny weather made for ideal conditions to collect signatures in support of the End Water Poverty campaign.

WaterAid campaigner Rhian Lewis said:

"Festival goers were really keen to add their voice to our campaign and put public pressure on the UK government to put water and sanitation on the international agenda at next week's G8 meeting. During the weekend the issue of sanitation was really brought to life for the thousands of people attending the festival who spend a few days without the luxury of their own toilet!

"The festival provided a great opportunity to get our message out to a large number of people, that it's just not acceptable for 4,000 children to die every day because of a lack life's basics – clean water and somewhere to go to the toilet.

"It's fantastic that over 10 per cent of Glastonbury revellers supported our cause, and added their name to the petition."

The campaign also received support from a number of stars at the festival including VV Brown, Mathew Horne, Paulo Nutini, Jo Whiley, Tinariwen, Baaba Maal, KT Tunstall, Ed from The Friendly Fires, Dominick West (McNulty from the TV series the wire), Keith Allen, Howard Marks, Nick Clegg MP, Emmy the Great, and Maximo Park.

Find out more about the petitions that were delivered to 10 Downing Street. 

Watch our Glastonbury Festival campaigning video.