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19/11/22 13:41 PM IST

World Toilet Day 2022

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  • The United Nations observed World Toilet Day on November 19 annually.
  • The main aim is to raise public awareness of broader sanitation systems such as wastewater treatment, stormwater management, and hand washing. 
World Toilet Day 
  • The 2022 theme is ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ and explores how inadequate sanitation systems spread human waste into rivers, lakes and soil, polluting underground water resources.
  • It was on this day in 2001 when Jack Sim, a philanthropist from Singapore founded the World Toilet Organization and declared the day as World Toilet Day.
  • The efforts to draw attention to the sanitation crises were given focus by the UN in 2010 when they officially recognised the right to water and sanitation as human rights.
  • The central message of World Toilet Day 2022 is that safely managed sanitation protects groundwater from human waste pollution. 
Swachh Bharat Mission
  • The Swachh Bharat Mission has been recognized as the world’s largest behavior change program.
  • It represents the influential force of peoples’ participation -‘Jal Andolan’, that transformed the lives of rural India populace in terms of social benefits, economic gains, environmental safety and most importantly dignity and security to women.
  • The second phase of SBM focusses to build on this strong foundation of healthy behaviors and inform, educate and create action towards ODF plus.
Source- Indian Express 

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