World Toilet Day

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
• Description:
  Each year on November 19, World Toilet Day celebrates toilets and highlights the global sanitation crisis that affects billions of people around the world who are living without access to a safely managed toilet. Without clean, safe toilets, human waste (poop) can contaminate communities’ food and water sources, which increases people’s chances of getting sick.
  
  When There Is No Place to Go;When people don’t have access to a toilet, they go outside in the open (called open defecation). Around the world at least 892 million people continue to practice open defecation. This often causes the spread of diarrheal diseases. Each day, nearly 1,000 children die around the world from diarrhea related to poor sanitation and contaminated water sources. Safe sanitation, the practice of good hygiene, and a safe water supply can save the lives of more than 350,000 children a year.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anniversaries And Special Events Public Health Sanitation Toilet Facilities
• Source:
  World Toilet Day
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  World Toilet Day ; World Toilet Day
• Genre:
  Webpage
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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