The world toilet day is no joke. No invention has saved so many lives as the toilet. But still 4.5 billion people have to survive every day without a functioning plumbing system.
A public toilet in the village of Mator in India – actually just a hole in the ground.
It is early Morning in India. The first light creeps degrees above the horizon, you can see in the haze the outlines of a small, rural town. A newly married Couple is asleep in bed as it knocks on the door. Outside, two women with lanterns, you will want to pick up the young bride – to complete the morning toilet, in the bushes outside of the city. The bride is stunned and flees from the house of your loved one.
The scenes are part of an Indian Bollywood film in August 2017 with the title “toilet: A love story”. He tells the true story of a man who fought for more toilets in his village, after his wife had left him because there was no.
India has announced to the toilet without a fight, and not just in the Film, the policy has made the excrement. In any country there are more people without a toilet. The technical term for what is the result of “public defecation”, which means as much as “behind the Bush”.
Toilets alone are not enough – On the disposal, it is
“‘Toilets important than temples’, PM modi said. His Plan is that by 2019 all Indians will have a safe, sustainable toilet”, says Arne Panesar. He is head of the sustainable sanitation at the German society for international cooperation (GIZ) and was more often for projects in India and Bangladesh.
It is good that the policy intends to address the things he says. It would, however, strongly on how to proceed: “The mayor of Dhakar, the capital of Bangladesh, says he did it, that out of 16 million inhabitants, only 1 percent has no toilet.”
However, looking at where the waste water of these toilets to land, it doesn’t look so rosy: Of the 16 million people, have only 1 to 2 percent a “safely managed” sanitation. That is, the wastewater to land in a reservoir, where you can’t contaminate it. The remaining 98 percent go out somewhere to the right or to the left from the System. So many of the wastewater to land then, still, just around the corner, in their own district, or in the river in front of the village. The non-naturally improves the health of the population.
Sustainable sewage bypass
“Six out of ten people worldwide do not have access to a sustainable, organized sanitary system are 4.5 billion people. In addition, 2.1 billion have no access to safe drinking water,” says Panesar.
Almost 1000 children die every day of a preventable death. Many parasites and diseases such as Cholera, typhoid, and Polio spread only because there is not a safe wastewater system. In addition to India, many African countries have problems with sanitation.
The WHO has therefore set itself in 2015, among other things, the “sustainable development goal” that by 2030 all people should have access to clean water and a functioning sanitation system. Particularly, the WHO stresses the care of the poor and the needs of women and girls. Because in the case of toilets, it is not just about health, it is also a matter of safety and education for women.
The goal: Completed toilets, where women have privacy.
“Especially for young women, it is during Menstruation is important to have a space in it. We have so many projects in schools,” says Stephen Simon, one of the world hunger help. “If the school is not clean, separate toilets, then the girls do not go during the period in the school. You miss the lesson. This leads to educational failure and, ultimately, an impact on the economic strength of a country.”
Sewer is not everywhere the solution
Nevertheless, it is not about any country to miss out on a sewage system after the European model. “This is neither financially nor structurally possible. Also in Germany, we could stomp our present System in ten years. There is also, in many regions there is enough water. It is important that the faeces enter the environment, and the people have a clean, decent toilet,” says Arne Panesar, GIZ. By 2015, other development, however, were still targets. It was less about sustainability and more about getting people from the field. “Since the toilets were built, which were then derived but in the village pond. Of course that is not the sense of the thing. As the new sustainable targets have been put out to tender, not broke the Figures, therefore, once again, because now many of the constructed toilets to apply more than sure,” says Panesar.
A solution could be, for example, a compost toilet. Since the faeces are collected and left to rot, without getting into the environment. Also a safe septic tank can work if she is far enough away from wells, or groundwater.
With the use of properly learning
Whether the implementation of the objectives of work in 2030, you can say no. Thus, it is possible to not only to build toilets, it also goes to cultural issues, and the proper placement of toilet use to the population.
“Take the example of Ethiopia. The households are there to welcome it in the toilet. But after a short time the toilets are not used as they should be used, but as a storage room or warehouse,” says Stephan Simon. “If you can’t make the people clear that you have to separate faeces from food you didn’t win here a lot. Factual brings Argue but little. It is better to argue richer emotionally. After all, who has a clean toilet and clean water, feels better and can give it to his neighbor without shame.”
And it is precisely these tactics India is pursuing with its toilets-love the movie. The topic is taboo, it is emotive, cultural and religious concerns will be addressed. And the conclusion: he Who loves his wife who builds her a toilet.
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Toilets for the worldIn Rank and file
“Better care for better nutrition”, so the Motto of the world toilet day is this year. Without water and clean toilets, diseases may develop, which contribute to malnutrition in poor countries. Not everywhere, there are so many Chemieklos as it is here in the city center of Rome.
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Toilets for the worldThe Quiet Village Of
An outhouse stands alone on a private plot of land in the Russian Yuzhno-Kurilsk. In an international comparison, the owner of this Quiet Village is in a privileged position. A third of people worldwide do not have access to clean toilets.
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Toilets for the worldNecessities, Outdoor
Almost a billion people have never used a proper toilet – only street corners and fields. Most of them live in South Asia and southern Africa. This is especially on the quality of water in these regions, with fatal consequences: Every day to die almost 1000 children worldwide, diarrhea.
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Toilets for the worldA stomping ground for bacteria
Debris on the floor of a public toilet in Shigezhuang in the North of China. Where there is no running water, can spread diseases quickly.
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Toilets for the worldNo Security
Sheets of plywood and a blanket to serve as a point of departure for this Latrine in a poor neighborhood of Ciudad Juarez in Northern Mexico. Such improvised toilets can be particularly for women is very dangerous, because it comes in these unprotected areas again and again to sexual Assault.
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Toilets for the worldSleazy Image
With graffiti and stickers have been immortalized on the walls of this restaurant in Brooklyn, New York. The Image of public toilets is also in industrialized countries, little inviting.
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Toilets for the worldLuxury bathroom consumer
Care products, books and free Internet: This public toilet in Brazil is likely to be the exception. The luxury bathroom, designed by Mike Jagger’s daughter Jade, in a posh shopping area of Sao Paolo is a time-limited project to make on the lack of toilets in the Public’s attention.
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Toilets for the worldIn the sense of the Klobalisierung
Sanitary facilities affect not only the health and Dignity of the people, but contribute significantly to the economic development of a Region. According to the development goals of the United Nations will have by 2030 all people with access to clean toilets for a klobalisierte world.
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World toilet dayLack of Hygiene kills
A third of the world’s population has no access to clean and safe toilets. This leads to disease – worldwide, more people die of the consequences of the lack of Hygiene as Malaria and measles. Even in rural areas of Eastern Europe are latrines or outhouses – still widely used. It can contaminate the drinking water there, where you have to win it from the well.
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World toilet dayIn the health invest
Water-borne diseases such as typhoid and diarrhea are spreading rapidly, where there are no toilets. In Kibera, the largest slum in Africa and is well known for this Problem. There are many did their business in a plastic bag that you threw away. Since it is in a Shantytown in Nairobi now, these toilets will have less people sick.
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World toilet dayForbidden Dirty Work
In some Parts of India, where no treatment plants are available, there is still a latrine cleaner, as this woman cleans here Mudali in the North of India. Actually, the employment of people is prohibited for this kind of work for 20 years, but until now no employer has been sued.
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World toilet dayWould areas in crisis
In crisis situations, the logistics effort is for sanitation facilities is huge. Often there are long queues and people have to queue for hours. The refugees, like these Somalis who have fled to Tunisia – are in need of additional facilities that can provide the local infrastructure is often difficult.
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World toilet dayDiseases spread
Refugee camps around the borders of Syria, as this here in the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan to take daily for thousands of refugees of the civil war. The camps are overcrowded, so that infectious diseases such as Polio re-spread.
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World toilet dayTargeted support to poverty reduction
A simple toilet is one of the most inexpensive means to combat poverty. The Äthioperin Tirame Ayago, 55, (pictured) has a Latrine thanks to the organization “Toilet Twinning” is now one of their own. Previously, the family was often sick. Now you can save the money it has spent for medicines, for school fees.
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World toilet daySustainable Solutions
In El Alto, near the Bolivian capital of La Paz, toilets, the sort precipitates, and the process so that you can use it as a fertilizer. Farmers in the area to get the fertilizer for free, and the lawn of a new football field is supplied.
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World toilet dayQuiet spot with a view
In the most remote places in the world, toilets without water, electricity or sewage treatment plants. This toilet on Mount McKinley in Alaska offers a spectacular view of the highest mountain in North America. Such a quiet Village-inspired toilets Fan of Luke Barclay so much that he included them in his book “A loo [British for bathroom, Anm. d. Red.] with a view” immortalised.