World Toilet Day 2020

World Toilet Day is observed on 19 November each year to create awareness about sanitation and encourage people to use toilets.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

The theme of this year’s World Toilet Day is sustainable sanitation and climate change. Severe effects of climate change like floods, drought and rising sea levels are threatening sanitation systems and increasing health risks.

Safe and hygienic toilets form the strongest defence mechanism against COVID19 and other diseases.

In the last few years, India has taken remarkable steps to inculcate the practice of safe and hygienic sanitation behaviour under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

This drive not only changed the age-old habits of millions of people, but also increased their productivity while protecting them from diseases.

It also paved the way for construction of over 11 crore household toilets and conversion of more than six lakh villages into open defecation free.