New Delhi: With more people than ever before migrating to cities, finding a toilet is not only a chore but a public health issue for hundreds of millions of people around the world, WaterAid, a sanitation charity, said on Thursday. Nearly one in five city dwellers, or about 700 million people worldwide do not have access to decent toilets, according to the Britain-based WaterAid. About 600 million people use […]
According to the United Nations, 2.4 billion people around the world don’t have access to decent sanitation and more than a billion are forced to defecate in the open, risking disease and other dangers. Yes that’s indeed an alarming figure! Just like any other right, it’s every person’s right to clean water and sanitation. To address and educate people about the the same, in 2013, the UN officially recognized November […]
A super-sized toilet that’s edible! Yuck? Er, no actually – it is a cake that weighs nearly 700 kg. It is part of an awareness drive organized in Delhi by Sulabh International, an NGO responsible for building public toilets in almost every Indian state. The three-day event that began on Wednesday over a thousand school children take part in the pledge, ‘Toilet For All by 2019’. “The event has been […]
