World Toilet Day: When Nature Calls (19 November)

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Channel: United Nations · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Today, 4.5 billion live without a safe toilet and 892 million people still practise open defecation. 
The impact of exposure to human faeces on this scale has a devastating impact upon public health, living and working conditions, nutrition, education and economic productivity across the world.

Learn More: http://www.worldtoiletday.info/wtd2018/
Produced by: UN Water

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