November 19th is World Toilet Day - a day to celebrate the importance of sanitation and raise awareness for the 2.5 billion people (nearly half of the world's population) who don't have access to toilets and proper sanitation.
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- Declared by the World Toilet Organization in 2001, World Toilet Day has been celebrated by the world ever since.
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Thursday, November 19 at 12:00pm
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 The Golden Poo Awards! Check out the shortlisted films...
Source: www.thegoldenpooawards.org
Winning animations and other film from The Golden Poo Awards
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 Big Squat by Beyond Profit Magazine was almost foiled because the police thought there were going to actually poo on Chowpatty Beach!
Source: beyondprofitmag.com
Last Thursday was World Toilet Day, an international day to recognize the need for proper sanitation around the world. Upon encouragement from our friends at the World Toilet Organization, the Beyond Profit team organized an event—a Big Squat—a public demonstration of sorts. ...
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 Check out the brand new Australian Toilet Organisation website! *love* their logo!
Source: www.australiantoilet.org
The Australian Toilet Organisation aims to improve access to and quality of toilets and sanitation, domestically and internationally.
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 Here is the video from the DC event. Great speeches!
Source: www.youtube.com
A brief wrap up of the event that commemorated World Toilet Day on Thursday, November 19th, 2009.
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009
Wow! In front of the capital building in Washington, DC, Water Advocates, The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), WaterAid America, Water For People, Earth Day Network, and others came together to celebrate WTD. It consisted of the German Toilet Organization’...s Sanitation is Dignity exhibit, demonstrators carrying posters, 30 primary school students, and short speeches on the problem and solvability of the sanitation crisis.Read More
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 Send us photos of your World Toilet Day event to wtd@worldtoilet.org
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 We at the World Toilet Organization are off to celebrate a HUGELY successful World Toilet Day 2009. Thank you your support!
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 NGO's from Lien Aid, IDE Hydrologic, WaterSHED, and the World Toilet Organization did the Big Squat in Phnom Penh.
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 An interesting article about the challanges for Indians accustomed to using water instead of toilet paper when they travel.
Source: economictimes.indiatimes.com
MUMBAI: A friend once told me how, several years ago when working in a leading ad agency she had a colleague who was told he had to attend an international brand conference for one of his clients in Italy. ...
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 Google employees in Chicago do a Big Squat for World Toilet Day - and they really had fun with it!
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 yay for over 1,000 fans!
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 I'm pretty sure I'm not going to die from diarrhea. And that's a luxury 2.5 billion people do not have.
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 A solo squatter from Thames Barrier in London. Way to go, Annabelle!
World Toilet Day - November 19th 2009 Activists in Nigeria #bigsquat at a bus station in Obalende for people without sanitation.
