The United Nations observes every November 10 as World Toilet Day as a means of raising awareness about the global sanitation crisis and to achieve “sanitation for all” by 2030, which is a tenet of the organization’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 initiative.
Among the issues the plan tries to tackle includes the elimination of open defecation.
“World Toilet Day 2019 is drawing attention to those people being left behind without sanitation,” the organization stated on their website. “We must expand access to safe toilets and leave no one behind.”
The sanitation for all platform, adopted in 2013, calls on member-states to promote hygiene, ensure the provision of basic sanitation services, and implement proper sewerage and wastewater treatment.
Last month, a total of 162 sanitation officers were formally deployed across Iloilo City as a means of implementing the city’s anti-littering ordinance.
Aside from littering and vandalism, the city policy also seeks to crack down on public urination and defecation./WDJ

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