World Toilet Day

  • World Toilet Day is held every year on 19 November. It has been an annual United Nations Observance since 2013. • World Toilet Day raises awareness of the 3.4 billion people living without access to safe toilets. • World Toilet Day is about accelerating action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6): water and sanitation for all by 2030.  • The World Toilet Day global campaign, coordinated by UN-Water, is live at www.worldtoiletday.org and on social media with the hashtag #WorldToiletDay. Individuals, organizations, governments, companies and schools around the world take part online and through real-life events.  • World Toilet Day celebrates a different theme each year, proposed by UN-Water – the United Nations’ coordination mechanism on water and sanitation. Explore past themes here

 • By 2050, around 1.6 billion people will be at risk of floods, potentially disrupting ordestroying sanitation services as well as dislocating populations so they no longer have access to safely managed sanitation , and up to 3.2 billion people will live in potentially severely water-scarce areas, negatively impacting sanitation services. (United Nations, 2020)  • Increased glacier melting, exacerbated by methane emissions from sanitation,contributes significantly to global sea-level rise , with today’s sea level about 20 cm higher than in 1900, risking inundating coastal sanitation infrastructure and services. (IPCC, 2020)