OKEHAMPTON man David Law will be showing how toilets save lives with WaterAid at Glastonbury Festival.

David, 48, a water technician, will head to the festival with WaterAid this summer to rally support for the charity’s ToiletsSavesLives campaign that calls on world leaders to reach everyone, everywhere with taps and toilets.

David has supported WaterAid for 19 years. He will now be working at the ‘Loo Crew’ alongside an army of 470 dedicated WaterAid volunteers making a splash at Worthy Farm this year.

He said: ‘I’m really proud to have been selected to represent WaterAid at Glastonbury. I’m going to be working on the long drop and composting toilets and I’m really looking forward to a shower after!

‘Access to safe water and improved sanitation really can tranform lives. This will be a great opportunity to get fellow festival-goers thinking about the realities of life without safe water and toilets and to help engage thousands of people in a cause I feel passionately about.’

Last year, world leaders made the first ever commitment to reach everyone, everywhere with clean water and safe toilets — Global Goal 6. Aside form working with the Loo Crew team, David and his fellow WaterAid volunteers are hoping to gather more than 40,000 signatures at Glastonbury Festival for WaterAid’s ToiletsSaveLives petition, which calls on Prime Minister David Cameron to explain how he plans to turn the promise of Goal 6 into a reality. The charity wants the UK Government to provide a clear plan, backed with money to make it happen.

Without home comforts — whether queuing to get a drink, waiting to use the toilet, or not being as clean as they’d like to be — festival goers can start to understand what it‘s like for more than 650-million people living without clean water and the 2.3-billion people with nowhere safe to go to the toilet.

WaterAid volunteers will be giving out drinking water to festival goers, collecting rubbish for recycling, manning the toilets, as well as helping manage the pilot scheme to introduce reusable stainless steel cups. Each WaterAid volunteer works shifts of four to six hours a day — the same amount of time many in the developing world spend collecting water, leaving little for education.

For more information and to contribute to WaterAid’s ToiletsSaveLives campaign, visit www.wateraid.org/uk/ toiletssavelives