FORUM: “Making the invisible visible.” World Toilet Day 2022. We face a global sanitation crisis. Today, 3.6 billion people are still living with poor quality toilets that ruin their health and pollute their environment. Inadequate sanitation systems, spread human waste into rivers, lakes and soil, contaminating the water resources under our feet. Safely managed sanitation protects groundwater from human waste pollution. Everyone must have access to a toilet connected to a sanitation system that effectively removes and treats human waste. The link between sanitation and groundwater cannot be overlooked. This World Toilet Day, let’s make the the invisible visible. Share your experiences of how sanitation affects groundwater. Join millions of people in conversations across the world. Follow the conversations with the hashtags #19November, #WorldToiletDay, #sanitation. #Opendefecation.
EVENTS: The UN-Water, the World Toilet Organization and the World Toilet Association will held a webinar to mark the World Toilet Day 2022. Sanitation and how it protects groundwater will be discussed at the UN-Water Summit on Groundwater on 7-8 December in Paris. The Summit aims to bring attention to groundwater at the highest international level and will deliver a joint message to the UN 2023 Water Conference, urging policymakers to fully recognize the importance of groundwater and accelerate progress on sanitation as a means to safeguard this precious resource.
2022 SANITATION AND GROUNDWATER
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