World Toilet Day
- POSTED ON: 13 Nov, 2017
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- POSTED BY: Chari Vijayaraghavan
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If there’s one thing that unites us all, it’s the call of nature. The theme for 2017 has been “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 poo 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.
To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, our poo needs to go through this 4 step journey:
Source : World Toilet Day | www.worldtoiletday.info