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WORLD TOILET DAY 2022

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE

We face a global sanitation crisis. 

Today, 3.6 billion people are still living with poor quality toilets that ruin their health and pollute their environment. 

Inadequate sanitation systems spread human waste into rivers, lakes and soil, contaminating the water resources under our feet.

Safely managed sanitation protects groundwater from human waste pollution. 

Everyone must have access to a toilet connected to a sanitation system that effectively removes and treats human waste.

 

The link between sanitation and groundwater cannot be overlooked. 

This World Toilet Day, let’s make the invisible visible. World Toilet Day is held every year on 19 November. It has been an annual United Nations Observance since 2013.

COUNTDOWN TO 2030

 

We are seriously off track to ensure safe toilets for all by 2030. 

That is the promise of Sustainable Development Goal 6.2.

With only eight years left, the world needs to work four times faster to meet this target. 

Download and add the ‘Countdown to 2030: Sanitation for all’ stamp to your content. Help remind the world that time is running out.

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SANITATION AND UN-WATER SUMMIT ON GROUNDWATER

Sanitation and how it protects groundwater will be discussed at the UN-Water Summit on Groundwater on 7-8 December in Paris.

The Summit aims to bring attention to groundwater at the highest international level and will deliver a joint message to the UN 2023 Water Conference, urging policymakers to fully recognize the importance of groundwater and accelerate progress on sanitation as a means to safeguard this precious resource.
 

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STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Sanitation workers
Upon the launch of the State of the World's Sanitation report in 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) along with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Eastern and Southern Africa Water and Sanitation (ESAWAS) regulators association and the Bill ...
Illustration of toilet and sustainable sanitation system.
Accelerating Sanitation Towards 2030 is a World Toilet Day event to kick off UN-Water’s advocacy initiative that calls for increasingly rapid progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: sanitation and water for all by 2030. The event on Friday 18 ...
Inflatable toilet in front of United Nations HQ in New York
World Toilet Day would not be complete without the appearance of the giant inflatable toilet on the front lawn of the UN headquarters in New York! After a three year absence due to COVID-related restrictions, the enormous icon will be ...