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World Toilet Day (WTD) is an official United Nations international observance day on 19 November to inspire action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. [1] [2] Worldwide, 4.2 billion people live without "safely managed sanitation" and around 673 million people practice open defecation.
World Toilet Day (WTD) was founded on 19 November 2001, and the inaugural World Toilet Summit (WTS) was held on the same day. Created by the WTO, World Toilet Day's supreme purpose is to draw attention to the ongoing global sanitation crisis. [5]
Jack Sim Juek Wah (Chinese: 沈 锐 华; pinyin: Shěn Ruìhuá, born 1957), also known as Mr Toilet, is a Singaporean entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the founder of the World Toilet Organization and World Toilet Day initiative. He is also the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore.
A vault toilet is a non-flush toilet with a sealed container (or vault) buried in the ground to receive the excreta, all of which is contained underground until it is removed by pumping. A vault toilet is distinguished from a pit latrine because the waste accumulates in the vault instead of seeping into the underlying soil.
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This article needs to have more information from the start of the organization in 2001 to when World Toilet Day Started in 2013. It also needs to show all of the details of the goals and facts about sanitation that is on both of the websites for World Toilet Day and the World Toilet Organizations websites that have many of the facts on it.
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For example, according to a World Bank study, economic losses due to inadequate sanitation to The Indian economy are equivalent to 6.4% of its GDP. [24] Most of these are due to premature mortality, time lost in accessing, loss of productivity, additional costs for healthcare among others. [ 24 ]