2024-10 World Toilet Day
Toilets: A Place for Peace
November 19 is World Toilet Day.
"Safe Toilets for all by 2030" is one of the targets of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SD6)- But the world is seriously off track.
The theme this year is "Toilets: A Place for Peace." This essential space, at the centre of our lives, should be safe and secure. But for billions of people, sanitation is under threat from conflict, climate change, disasters and neglect.
Go to World Toilet Day get resources from the UN.
When you visit the website, where the UN tracks the progress towards water and sanitation, you can see that the status of drinking water and hygiene are about 75%, but sanitation logs far behind at 57%.
3.5 billion people still live without safely managed sanitation, including 419 million who practise open defecation. Conflict, extreme weather events and disasters can destroy, damage or disrupt sanitation services. When toilet systems don’t work – or don’t exist – untreated human waste spreads in the environment, unleashing deadly diseases such as cholera and polio.
The UN advocates that governments must ensure that sanitation and water services are resilient, effective, accessible to everyone and shielded from harm.
Rotary clubs do a lot of projects that bring clean water to communities, but The Rotary Foundation wants to put more emphasis on sanitation projects, especially in healthcare facilities and schools