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19 November is World Toilet Day 😄🌍🚽💚: Every year over 500,000 children under the age of five die due to inadequate sanitation. A significant amount of those deaths would be prevented if toilets, safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and hygiene were accessible. Every year on November 19, the United Nations celebrates World Toilet Day to raise awareness for the sanitation crisis across the world.
Here's an interesting video about World Toilet Day:
https://youtu.be/EPKa8A8Pm3U?si=wxU5T18zaxG-uq_r
https://www.un.org/en/observances/toilet-day
https://unric.org/en/what-is-world-toilet-day/
https://www.worldtoiletday.info
Here's an interesting video about World Toilet Day:
https://youtu.be/EPKa8A8Pm3U?si=wxU5T18zaxG-uq_r
https://www.un.org/en/observances/toilet-day
https://unric.org/en/what-is-world-toilet-day/
https://www.worldtoiletday.info
16 November 2023 - Score: 0.99
On November 19, the world celebrates a most unglamorous holiday: World Toilet Day. An average person spends 813 days in the bathroom throughout their life — that’s over 2 years of your life. Your toilet is more important than you think! 😄🚽💩💚
Sanitation is a taboo subject, considered as dirty and repulsive. Yet we have to go to the toilet six to eight times a day, maybe even more for those with digestive issues.
Going to the loo is a daily habit. It is a daily routine. It is a culture. We need to have a good toilet culture. We need to break the taboo by talking about it openly and treating it as any other normal subject, as normal as eating and sleeping. This is important because when we do not discuss it, we cannot improve it. It must not be considered as rude, embarrassing, or unspeakable. We need to make it a sexy subject for normal discourse. We need to invent new vocabulary for a good discussion on toilet issues.
The man who turned a taboo subject into an international day is Singaporean businessman Jack Sim, who founded the World Toilet Organization in 2001 and later the World Toilet College, World Toilet Summit, and bathroom associations around the globe. Arguing that poor sanitation kills people and costs millions in lost productivity, “Mr. Toilet” made a crusade out of sanitation (while keeping a sense of humour—the 2012 World Toilet Day slogan was “I give a sh--, do you?”). In 2013, the United Nations adopted it to recognise the 2.4 billion people who live without a toilet. Two years later the UN pledged toilet access for everyone by 2030 in the Sustainable Development Goals.
It took me a while to see why he's called #2 Man 🤣💩 - YouTube video: Mr Toilet: The World's #2 Man | Trailer - https://youtu.be/25tZ-9wnqFY?si=SpUe0GnhMmfWFQ9w
With this global attention, toilet innovation has flourished. Government and NGO-run initiatives that produce low-cost toilets or toilet add-ons to improve safety and sanitation are dispatched to remote villages and disaster zones. But it remains a challenge to tackle the stigma that accompanies a trip to the bathroom in various countries. Critics note that these initiatives do not earmark enough money for education. This gives cultural norms (many of which prohibit having a bathroom in or near a home) power over modern technology.
Some interesting links here:
https://worldtoilet.org
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/world-toilet-day-sanitation-pictures
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/extraordinary-toilets-around-the-world
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/photos-of-toilets-around-the-world/
https://www.insider.com/bathrooms-around-the-world-2018-7#squat-toilets-which-travelers-often-expect-in-asian-countries-like-singapore-thailand-or-taiwan-are-more-common-than-youd-think-2
Bindeshwar Pathak: India's 'Toilet Man' who made urinating safely a reality
“Campaigner and social reformer Bindeshwar Pathak who died on Tuesday, aged 80, was a man who revolutionised the concept of toilets in India.
In the early 1970s, he made a cheap twin-pit toilet - a design which has since been used to build clean toilets in hundreds of thousands of homes across India, helping millions of women access safe sanitation facilities.
Over the years, his Sulabh Foundation also helped many Indian cities set up pay-per-use toilets that were clean and safe.
The concept - one rupee for a pee and two rupees for a poo - quickly caught on in a country where using a toilet in public often meant squatting behind a tree.”:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66519696
Sanitation is a taboo subject, considered as dirty and repulsive. Yet we have to go to the toilet six to eight times a day, maybe even more for those with digestive issues.
Going to the loo is a daily habit. It is a daily routine. It is a culture. We need to have a good toilet culture. We need to break the taboo by talking about it openly and treating it as any other normal subject, as normal as eating and sleeping. This is important because when we do not discuss it, we cannot improve it. It must not be considered as rude, embarrassing, or unspeakable. We need to make it a sexy subject for normal discourse. We need to invent new vocabulary for a good discussion on toilet issues.
The man who turned a taboo subject into an international day is Singaporean businessman Jack Sim, who founded the World Toilet Organization in 2001 and later the World Toilet College, World Toilet Summit, and bathroom associations around the globe. Arguing that poor sanitation kills people and costs millions in lost productivity, “Mr. Toilet” made a crusade out of sanitation (while keeping a sense of humour—the 2012 World Toilet Day slogan was “I give a sh--, do you?”). In 2013, the United Nations adopted it to recognise the 2.4 billion people who live without a toilet. Two years later the UN pledged toilet access for everyone by 2030 in the Sustainable Development Goals.
It took me a while to see why he's called #2 Man 🤣💩 - YouTube video: Mr Toilet: The World's #2 Man | Trailer - https://youtu.be/25tZ-9wnqFY?si=SpUe0GnhMmfWFQ9w
With this global attention, toilet innovation has flourished. Government and NGO-run initiatives that produce low-cost toilets or toilet add-ons to improve safety and sanitation are dispatched to remote villages and disaster zones. But it remains a challenge to tackle the stigma that accompanies a trip to the bathroom in various countries. Critics note that these initiatives do not earmark enough money for education. This gives cultural norms (many of which prohibit having a bathroom in or near a home) power over modern technology.
Some interesting links here:
https://worldtoilet.org
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/world-toilet-day-sanitation-pictures
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/extraordinary-toilets-around-the-world
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/photos-of-toilets-around-the-world/
https://www.insider.com/bathrooms-around-the-world-2018-7#squat-toilets-which-travelers-often-expect-in-asian-countries-like-singapore-thailand-or-taiwan-are-more-common-than-youd-think-2
Bindeshwar Pathak: India's 'Toilet Man' who made urinating safely a reality
“Campaigner and social reformer Bindeshwar Pathak who died on Tuesday, aged 80, was a man who revolutionised the concept of toilets in India.
In the early 1970s, he made a cheap twin-pit toilet - a design which has since been used to build clean toilets in hundreds of thousands of homes across India, helping millions of women access safe sanitation facilities.
Over the years, his Sulabh Foundation also helped many Indian cities set up pay-per-use toilets that were clean and safe.
The concept - one rupee for a pee and two rupees for a poo - quickly caught on in a country where using a toilet in public often meant squatting behind a tree.”:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66519696
18 November 2023 - Score: 0.75