What is World Toilet Day?
World Toilet Day is about inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. Today, 4.5 billion people live without a household toilet that safely disposes of their waste.
The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include a target to ensure everyone has access to a safely-managed household toilet by 2030. This makes sanitation central to eradicating extreme poverty.
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.
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Get inspired
Here’s a selection of great stories all about human waste and what we need to do with it!
Take action
Wherever you are on World Toilet Day, make it about toilets.
- Where you go matters
892 million people worldwide still practice open defecation. Let’s end open defecation. Print and share the poster in your area. - Get together for toilets
Upload your event to the world map and be part of the global community taking action. - Where does your poo go?
Everybody poos, but not everybody knows what happens to that poo.
Learn more about the distinctly unglamorous yet essential 4-step journey we need the world’s waste to take. - Push the issue
Use your office noticeboard and your online profiles – download all the free World Toilet Day posters, logos and memes to help get the message out. - Clean India Mission
The Government of India is aiming to eliminate open defecation by 2019 through the construction of toilets across the nation. Learn more about this incredible movement. - Get flushed with creativity
Express your love and admiration for toilets through art and show the world that sanitation is your muse.
- Raise a GLAAS!
Enjoy the new findings from WHO/UN-Water in the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-water (GLAAS). - Learn about toilets
Change starts with knowledge. Read some of the great content we’ve gathered on toilets, human waste and what we need to do with it! - ‘Our Hands, Our Future!’
Handwashing protects our own health, but also allows us to build our own futures, as well as those of our communities, and the world. Join Global Handwashing Day 2017. - Run for the toilet
Join the Global Urgent Run for sanitation organized by the World Toilet Organization. - Knowledge is power
Open your eyes to the latest facts and figures on the state of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene around the world. - Don’t feed Freddy the fly!
Enjoy this animation and poem, all about a community’s journey to stop open defecation in their village.
