Why should YOU care about toilets?

UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation Pedro Arrojo, discusses why we should care about toilets, not just this #WorldToiletDay but every other day 👉

So WHO will fund toilets?

Secondly, UN Special Rapporteur Pedro Arrojo emphasizes the need to significantly increase public funding towards sanitation💰💰💰: This is a democratic challenge ⚖️ not a speculative fix 👉

Why are toilets seats of Gender Equality?

Lastly, UN Special Rapporteur Pedro Arrojo 🔎 emphasises the role of women and girls as key drivers of change in water and sanitation. We couldn’t agree more! 🙌
Toilets🚽are seats of gender equality 👉

An Activist’s Glossary for Just Sanitation

The OVERDUE team and co-learning participants produced a political glossary to capture the diversity of terms used in sanitation. Explore it in English, Portuguese, French and Swahili!


Simplified sewer system in Mwanza

Mwanza – Tanzania

More than 1 million residents, with 23% connected to a sewer network. In informal settlements, a 5.4 km simplified sewerage system coexists with pit latrines and septic tanks.

Freetown – Sierra Leone

From over 1 million residents, 0.3% are served by a 4 km long sewerage network. The rest use on-site facilities, 75% of these are unimproved pit latrines.

drain in Maputo with solid waste

Beira – Mozambique

Over 500,000 residents, of which 90% are off-grid, and 10% connected to a 97 km sewerage network. Numerous on-site latrines and tanks were damaged by Cyclone Idai in 2019.