UN declares November 19 as 'World Toilet Day'

United Nations has recently declared November 19, foundation day's World Toilet Organization, as 'World Toilet Day'.

World Toilet Organization: Established on November 19, it aims to advertise clean sanitation and public health policies.

Statistics:

• Around 2.5 billion people all over the world do not have proper sanitation, and 1.1 billion people defecate on view
• Getting sanitation for everybody could save the lives close to 200,000 children each year.
• It could bring a 35 percent reduction of diarrhoea, which causes around 75,000 deaths of kids under the age of 5 every year.

UN on sanitation: Getting sanitation for everyone by 2015 was one of the U.N.’s eight goals once the millennium started but with present speed it will require it 60 more several years to achieve that.

India:

• India has more cell phones than toilets
• Some 47 percent of India's 330 million households have toilet facilities while 63 percent of homes have phone connections
• Bindheshwar Pathak: founding father of Sulabh Toilets movement

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November 19: 'World Toilet Day'
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