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For every $1dollar spent on sanitation at least $9dollars are saved in health, education and economic development (UN)

Sanitation is more important than independence

In the future the flush toilet will become extinct. It makes no sense to flush excreta with precious drinking water. It's costly in terms of money and energy. In rural areas dry toilets have already become the best accepted technology. It's called Ecological Sanitation.

At current rates of progress the Millennium Development Goals sanitation target will not be met until the 22nd century. That's over 80 years too late!

For every $1dollar spent on sanitation at least $9dollars are saved in health, education and economic development (UN)

Children will continue to suffer the most with shortened life spans, missed schooling, disease, malnutrition and poverty.

60% of all rural diseases are caused by poor hygiene and sanitation.

More than 433 million school days are lost each year because of water-borne disease.

At any one time, half of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water-borne diseases caused by pollution from untreated sewage.

A baby born in sub-Saharan Africa is 500 times more likely to die from diarrhoeal diseases than a baby in the developed world. Even worse Diarrhoea can lead to severe malnutrition which contributed to 6 million child deaths a year.

Every day 5,000 children under 5 die needlessly from diarrhoeal diseases caused by dirty water.

In Africa it is estimated that 5% of GDP is lost to the illnesses and deaths caused by poor sanitation and water. (Source: UN)

40% of the world’s population who have to use fields, streams, rivers, railway lines, canal banks, roadsides, plastic bags, or squalid, disease breeding buckets.

Without toilets, disease and death are rife. Illness prevents people from working. It stops children going to school. It stops peace being built.

Without toilets, human waste can contaminate water, food and causes the majority of illness in the world. Illnesses like diarrhoea, which stop children growing healthily and lead to malnutrition.

One gram of faeces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria, 1000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs.

Every day 2.6 billion people do not have somewhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet.

The World Toilet Organisation

In 2001, the World Toilet Organisation was created to attain clean, safe, affordable, ecologically sound, and sustainable sanitation for everyone.

From its humble beginnings, the WTO now has 153 member organizations in 51 countries working towards eliminating the toilet taboo talk and delivering sustainable sanitation and higher living standards.

Aside from successful World Toilet summits and Expos, the WTO also declared its founding day of November 19 as "World Toilet Day"

World Toilet Summit

World Toilet Organisation members, of whom CORD is one, are heroes for toilets and sanitation.

The World Toilet Summit is a forum for collaboration in the fight to recognise the lack of toilets and sanitation as a major killer.

WTO has broken the toilet-taboo through leverage with the global media, high profile personalities, and humour. People no longer feel uncomfortable talking about the subject. This drives the demand for better provision and quality of toilets and sanitation.

A joint lobby with global NGOs and UN agencies led to the Hashimoto Compendium of Action for Sanitation and the naming of 2008 as the UN International Year of Sanitation.

WTO has set up the World Toilet College in Singapore and plans are underway to set up branches in Malaysia and Indonesia. The aim is to franchise the college all over the world so that knowledge can be shared world-wide to improve the skills of toilet cleaners.

A series of high profile World Toilet Summits have generated momentum in the host countries:

The Singapore government gave $S4 million grant for renovating coffee shop toilets in neighbourhood centres.
The British Toilet Association addressed the lack of public toilets after the World Toilet Summit in Ireland.
The New Delhi summit opened by India's President Abdul Kalam and Crown Prince of Holland created similar impact.
Beijing's summit, led to an overhaul of 4000 public toilets and triggered other cities to follow suit.
Shanghai's taxi drivers’ toilet maps and research publications have also created facilities not existing before.

WTO received $1million from the Red Cross to build public toilets in Aceh, Indonesia. The Lien Foundation also sponsored an initiative to provide toilets for tsunami victims in Sri Lanka.

WTO has won prestigious global awards for its social entrepreneurship: The Schwab Foundation (Swiss) Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2006, The Ashoka Global Fellow Award (USA) 2007 and The Singapore Green Plan Award 2004.

WTO is working with Ashoka Social Financial Services to build a World Sanitation Fund Facility , enabling the poor to access a full package of loans grants, products and training to bring proper sanitation to the bottom of the pyramid.

World Toilet College

In 2005, WTO started the first World Toilet College (WTC) to provide training in toilet design, maintenance, school sanitation, disaster sanitation and to implement sustainable sanitation systems. They want to break the taboo on toilet and sanitation to make it a mainstream subject for improvement.

Everyone has the right to live a dignified life and basic sanitation is the foundation to build from. Social entrepreneurship visionaries like WTO Founder Jack Sim who are passionate about awkward subjects are leading the way forward!

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