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| Love your loo - and help others get one too |
| Credit: WaterAid / Tom Hull |
2008 is the UN International Year of Sanitation, so this year WaterAid encouraged festival-goers to "Love your loo - and help others get one too!" - highlighting the fact that 2.5 billion people still don't have access to clean toilets.
Revellers expressed their love for their loo on our graffiti wall at the WaterAid stand by the Pyramid Stage, which proved so popular we had to give it a daily scrub to make room for more messages!
An amazing 18,000 people - over 10% of all festival goers - signed the End Water Poverty petition, demanding the G8 agree a global action plan for sanitation and water. Read more about End Water Poverty here (opens in new window).
Blogging
WC News reporters updated our blog live from WC Central - bringing you the sunny highs and muddy lows of the festival. You can also read it on our News blog, (RSS feed here) (links open in new window).
WaterAid also took part in an amazing festival first: a live photo and video moblog (mobile blog), updated by WaterAid, Greenpeace and Oxfam volunteers, along with festival goers, on site via mobile phones.
This year, the only thing we left at the festival were some great photos and videos on the Leave no trace moblog! (Opens in a new window)
Video
Watch a selection of videos from the Festival, including WC News reports from Billy Bog and Lucy Loo...
Love your Loo competition
In early June we ran a competition to win tickets to the festival. We asked you to take photographs on our Love your Loo theme to highlight how lucky we are to have hygienic facilities that safely dispose of human waste.
The competition is now closed, but you can view the great online gallery here, rate your fave pictures, and see the winning pictures as chosen by festival co-organiser Emily Eavis!
We have also added some exclusive backstage snaps to the gallery for your enjoyment.
