Among the panel were Sir Richard Jolly, chair of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for all, Klaus Topfer, Executive Director of UNEP and Michael Meacher, the UK's Minister of the Environment and Robert Kasrils, Minister of Water Affairs in the South African government.

It was a particularly light-hearted occasion, complete with appetizers, drinks and jokes, particularly on the part of Jolly and Topfer.

"There were great points made (in previous sessions) and lots of ironies," he said, placing emphasis on the word. "The poorer you are, the more you pay for water." He went on to focus predominately upon good hygiene, reeling off statistics relating to deaths caused by ineffective individual hygiene, directly or otherwise. "I want to correct the myth that safe water matters more than hygiene, because better hygiene produces quicker results. Although they're both really important," he added quickly.

This focus, Jolly said, was central to the WASH campaign. He further pointed out that twenty percent of deaths among children, particularly in less developed countries, could be eliminated simply by promoting good hygiene-for example, if everyone washed his hands after leaving the toilet and before eating.

Klaus Topfer spoke about countries that use a large percent of their water supply to make beer like Nairobi. "I'm not trying to argue against my habits," he was quick to note, to the response of many chuckles.

Ronnie Kasrils, addressed questions about the privatization of water. "We do not promote the privatization of water," he explained. "We integrate the concept of local people, some private companies and governments. They are public-private partnerships. and they only work when local people are involved." He did admit that private companies were "in it for the profit," but said that government and state must also take responsibility, "like we're doing in South Africa."