WHAT IS WORLD TOILET DAY

World Toilet Day, celebrated on 19th November, is about taking action to ensure that everyone has a safe toilet by 2030. This is part of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: sanitation and water.


World Toilet Day is a day to raise awareness and inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis – a topic often neglected and shrouded in taboos. Today, 2.4 billion people are struggling to stay well, keep their children alive and work their way to a better future – all for the want of a toilet.
The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include a target to ensure everyone everywhere has access to toilets by 2030. This makes sanitation a global development priority.
In 2013, the United Nations General Assembly officially designated November 19 as World Toilet Day. World Toilet Day is coordinated by UN-Water in collaboration with governments and partners.
The theme for 2017 was "wastewater." By 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals aim to reach everyone with sanitation, and halve the proportion of untreated wastewater and increase recycling and safe reuse. For that to be achieved, we need everyone’s waste to be contained, transported, treated and disposed of in a safe and sustainable way. Today, for billions of people around the world, sanitation systems are either non-existent or ineffective. Human waste gets out and killer diseases spread, meaning progress in health and child survival is seriously undermined.

World Toilet Day 2018 is about toilets and nature

when nature calls...


…we need a toilet. But billions of people don’t have one.


This means human faeces, on a massive scale, is not being captured or treated – contaminating the water and soil that sustain human life.


We are turning our environment into an open sewer.
We must build toilets and sanitation systems that work in harmony with ecosystems.


World Toilet Day is about nature-based solutions to our sanitation needs.


When nature calls we have to listen and act.