World Toilet Day

  “We urgently need to invest in ‘future-ready’ sanitation today. Together, we must ensure toilets are: accessible to all; resilient to floods, droughts and other climate shocks; minimize greenhouse gas emissions; and, are supported by strong systems and sustained investment.”  • Safely managed sanitation is essential for a resilient and more sustainable society, and drives progress across the 2030 Agenda, particularly in health, gender equality, livelihoods and environmental protection. • Sanitation services must be resilient to climate-related disasters – able to withstand and be sustained during and after these events or recover quickly to protect public health. • Safely managed sanitation, including safely reusing treated wastewater as a source of water, nutrients and energy, is critical to reducing emissions, protecting ecosystems, and building a circular economy. • Local and national authorities should allocate and increase sustained funding to sanitation and include...

 • 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)