The 12th annual World Toilet Summit gets underway in Durban today, Tuesday 4 December 2012. However, ordinary men and women on the streets say they do not know what the summit will be about. The three day conference is expected to attract over a...
Seven in 10 women in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to a safe toilet, which threatens their health and exposes them to shame, fear and even violence. This according to a survey conducted by WaterAid on women living across five slums in Lagos,...
In 2001, Singaporean businessman Jack Sim founded the World Toilet Organisation to bring attention to the lack of sanitation in developing countries. Travellers are still taking part in the organizsation’s annual World Toilet Day (19 November),...
Studies have revealed that residents of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare literally drink their waste. A government owned newspaper at the weekend described pollution levels at Harare’s water source – Lake Chivero – as comparable to a...
