“In the old days, there was no running water at home, I had to walk more than half a kilometer to fetch water and fill the vessel”, comments Luís Gonçalves, retired, born in 1947. The effort of many governments in seeking access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all has become a reality for many people. However, consumers don’t realize all the effort that was necessary, the path taken, to obtain quality and sustainability of this good and especially to maintain the high sanitation efficiency rate, for which it is crucial to change our unsustainable habits.