Providing improved drinking water and sanitationservices, and adopting good hygiene behaviours areof the utmost importance in reducing diarrhoealdisease. Mothers should dispose of their babies’faeces in a safe way, wash their hands after defeca-tion, after handling babies faeces, after cleaning theirbabies’ bottoms and before preparing food in orderto break the disease chain.The full benefits ofimproved drinking water and sanitation serviceswill be accrued only with effective and sustainablebehaviour change. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene andTropical Medicine claim that handwashing with soapcan cut the risk of diarrhoeal diseases by 42–47% 3 . Good hygiene behaviour brings about huge healthgains with relatively small investment.