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Valuing Toilets : 10 Reasons Why Investing In Toilets Makes Sense

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Ever wonder how much poor sanitation costs ?
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Open defecation, lack of access to water and poor sanitation is not just eyesore and immoral. It’s also pretty darn expensive. So if you care about money, take a look.

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VALUING TOILETS  

Sanitation is one of the most pervasive yet overlooked development challenges facing us in the 21st century. Globally, 4.2 billion people live without safety managed sanitation and 673 million still practice open defecation. We need to make it stink. Lack of sanitation affects public health, human dignity and personal safety, particularly for women who wait until after dark, when they are vulnerable to attack. It has short and long term implications.  
19th November is World Toilet Day. This World Toilet Day, the theme “Valuing Toilets” recognises the importance of toilets to public health and wellbeing, gender and social equality. The campaign also aims to highlight issues around underfunded, poorly managed, and (often) neglected toilet and the sanitation system that support it. Despite progress over the past two decades, toilets at home, workplaces, schools and hospitals are still far out-of-reach for billions of people.  
 
Investing in toilets makes sense. Here’s what you can learn about it : 

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Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces (WHO/UNICEF 2021)

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Schools without toilets can cause girls to miss out on their education. Without proper sanitation facilities, many are forced to miss school when they’re on their period.

FACT 9

Globally, 1 in 3 schools do not have adequate toilets, and 23% of schools have no toilets at all. (Unesco, 2018)

FACT 8

An estimated 367 million children attended a school in which there is no sanitation facility at all (source : WHO/UNICEF 2020)

FACT 10

85 per cent, of displaced people live in developing countries where access to safely managed water, sanitation and hygiene services may be limited.

FACT 1

For every $1 invested in basic sanitation up to $5 is returned in saved medical costs and increased productivity, and jobs are created along the entire sanitation chain (WHO Research).

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494 Million people still practice open defecation (WHO/UNICEF 2021)

FACT 6

Every day, over 700 children under five years old die from diarrhoea linked to unsafe water, sanitation and poor hygiene (WHO, 2021)

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Nearly half the world's population(3.6 billion people) doesn’t have access to safe sanitation i.e. toilets that connect to sewer/pit that manages human waste (WHO.UNICEF 2021)

FACT 5

829 000 people are estimated to dies each year from diarrhoea due to unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WHO)
With only 10 years left until 2030, the rate at which sanitation coverage is increasing will need to quadruple if we are to meet the sanitation targets outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals. While this challenge seems unsurmountable, history shows that rapid progress is possible within a generation. Without it, we cannot fulfill the rights of every child. Achieving universal coverage will be expensive, but inaction threatens to bring even greater costs.

REFERENCE :

Fact 1 : https://data.unicef.org/resources/state-of-the-worlds-sanitation/

Fact 2 : https://www.unwater.org/publications/who-unicef-joint-monitoring-program-for-water-supply-sanitation-and-hygiene-jmp-progress-on-household-drinking-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-2000-2020/

Fact 3: https://www.unwater.org/publications/who-unicef-joint-monitoring-program-for-water-supply-sanitation-and-hygiene-jmp-progress-on-household-drinking-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-2000-2020/ 

Fact 4  : https://www.unwater.org/publications/who-unicef-joint-monitoring-program-for-water-supply-sanitation-and-hygiene-jmp-progress-on-household-drinking-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-2000-2020/

Fact 5 : https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drinking-water

Fact 6 : https://www.unicef.org/media/95241/file/water-security-for-all.pdf 

Fact 7 : https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/10/9/1193/htm

Fact 8 : https://data.unicef.org/resources/state-of-the-worlds-sanitation/ 

fact 9 : The United Nations Children’s Fund and World Health Organization (2018) Drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in schools: Global baseline report 2018. p6. New York: UNICEF/WHO. Available at: https://washdata.org/monitoring/schools

Fact 10 : https://data.unicef.org/resources/state-of-the-worlds-sanitation/

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