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World Toilet Day

November 20, 2020
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The Prime Minister has said that on World Toilet Day,  the nation strengthens its resolve for the Toilet for all.

A brief note on World Toilet Day

  • It is an official United Nations international observance day on 19 November to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis
  • This year the theme remarks the importance of “Sustainable sanitation and climate change“.
  • It raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation.
  • It aims to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030.
  • On 19 November 2001, the NGO World Toilet Organization (WTO) was founded by Jack Sim, a philanthropist from Singapore. He subsequently declared 19 November as World Toilet Day
  • World Toilet Day was officially declared in 2013 at the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Key facts 

  • 40%- or three billion people of the global population live without basic hand washing facilities with soap and water available at home
  • Around 2,97,000 children under five-more than 800 every day die annually from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor hygiene, poor sanitation or unsafe drinking water
  • Globally, 80% of the wastewater generated by society flows back into the ecosystem without being treated or reused.
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