World Toilet Day
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
19 November 2010 is World Toilet Day -a global day to raise awareness of the global sanitation crisis. 4,000 children die every day from diarrhoea caused by dirty water and poor sanitation. Did you know? * 2.6 billion people do not have somewhere safe, private or hygienic to go to the toilet * One gram of faeces can contain 10 million viruses, one million bacteria (including cholera), 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs