Celebrating World Toilet Day 2021

Date: 19-11-2021

World Toilet Day 2021

Sustainable sanitation and climate change

World Toilet Day celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.

This year the theme remarks the importance of "Sustainable sanitation and climate change".

Climate change is accelerating. Flood, drought, and rising sea levels are threatening sanitation systems – from toilets to septic tanks to treatment plants. Floodwater can contaminate wells used for drinking water or flooding might damage toilets and spread human waste into communities and food crops, causing deadly and chronic diseases.

Everyone must have sustainable sanitation, alongside clean water and handwashing facilities, to help protect and maintain our health security and stop the spread of deadly infectious diseases such as COVID-19, cholera, and typhoid.

 


World Toilet Day 2021 - Some quick facts

When is World Toilet Day?

19 November 2021

What is World Toilet Day?

World Toilet Day has been an annual United Nations Observance since 2013. It was first established in 2001 by the World Toilet Organization.

What is the aim of World Toilet Day?

World Toilet Day celebrates toilets and raises awareness of the 3.6 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.

What is World Toilet Day 2021 about?

World Toilet Day 2021 is about valuing toilets. The campaign (www.worldtoiletday.org) draws attention to the fact that toilets – and the sanitation systems that support them – are underfunded, poorly managed or neglected in many parts of the world, with devastating consequences for health, economics and the environment, particularly in the poorest and most marginalized communities.

Learn more about World Toilet Day https://www.worldtoiletday.info/

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