World Toilet Day – Saturday 19 November 2011

It’s ten years since the first World Toilet Day and there are still 2.6 billion people with nowhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet.

That’s 2.6 billion people having to practice open defecation – urinating into rivers, which leads to water borne diseases such as acute diarrhea, cholera and dysentery. Others resort to roadsides, buckets, plastic bags and open fields as their toilets. The eventual outcome – deaths.

Diarrhoea still kills a child every 20 seconds. In fact, diarrhoea kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria and measles combined.

Readers of the British Medical Journal voted sanitation the single greatest medical advance of the last 150 years.

Find out more about World Toilet Day at:
http://www.worldtoilet.org/WTD/toolkit.html
http://www.wateraid.org/uk/get_involved/world_toilet_day/default.asp
http://www.thepoopproject.org/?tag=unicef

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