World Toilet Day 2022: World Toilet Day is observed by the UN every year on November 19. The major objective is to increase public knowledge of more extensive sanitation systems, including hand washing, stormwater management, and wastewater treatment. The 2022 campaign ‘Making the invisible visible’ explores how inadequate sanitation systems spread human waste into rivers, lakes and soil, polluting underground water resources.
November 2022 Current Affairs Quiz
The central message of World Toilet Day 2022 is that safely managed sanitation protects groundwater from human waste pollution. Currently, the world is seriously off track to meet the promise of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2: to ensure safe toilets for all by 2030.
World Toilet Day 2022: Theme
Making the Invisible Visible, the theme for 2022, examines how inadequate sanitation systems transfer human waste into rivers, lakes, and land, contaminating groundwater supplies.
World Toilet Day 2022: Key messages
Safe sanitation protects groundwater. Toilets that are properly sited and connected to safely managed sanitation systems, collect, treat and dispose of human waste, and help prevent human waste from spreading into groundwater. Sanitation must withstand climate change. Toilets and sanitation systems must be built or adapted to cope with extreme weather events, so that services always function and groundwater is protected.
Sanitation action is urgent. We are seriously off track to ensure safe toilets for all by 2030. With only eight years left, the world needs to work four times faster to meet our promise.
World Toilet Day: History
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. In 2013, the Singapore Government and the World Toilet Organization collaborated to create Singapore’s UN resolution – Sanitation for all. This resolution urged group efforts to address the global sanitation crisis. Following the adoption of the resolution by 122 nations at the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, World Toilet Day was designated as an official UN day.
World Toilet Day 2022: In India
The Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti, under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) is organizing ‘Swachhta Run’ across rural India, to mark the World Toilet Day.
- States & UTs directed to conduct the “Swachhta Run” at the Gram Panchayat level to celebrate World Toilet Day, 2022.
- Local elected representatives/sports persons/celebrities/influencers to flag off the “Swachhta Run” to commemorate World Toilet Day, 2022.
- Since 2013, there has been an annual event called World Toilet Day to celebrate toilets and bring attention to those who lack access to sanitation.
- Making the Invisible Visible is the theme for World Toilet Day in 2022.
- Day is about highlighting actions to tackle the global sanitation crisis.
- Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) recognized as the world’s largest behavior change program.
- Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) ‘Jal Andolan’ has transformed the lives of rural India populace.
