Find a toilet. A wall is not one.
Use a toilet rather than a wall or the roadside. Waste left in the open washes germs into the streets and the water everyone shares.
Here's the science
- What happensUrinating or defecating in the open instead of using a toilet
- HowPoor sanitation leaves human waste in the environment where it can contaminate water and surfaces and transmit disease-causing pathogens
- SoHigher risk of diarrhoeal and other faecal-oral diseases spreading through the community
How it works - the size isn't measured hereGLOBAL
“Poor sanitation is linked to transmission of diarrhoeal diseases such as cholera and dysentery, as well as typhoid, intestinal worm infections and polio.”
A global disease-transmission mechanism, not a measured effect for any one place. Open defecation is often driven by a lack of safe, accessible toilets, so this is a matter of infrastructure, dignity and public health - not blame.
Source: Sanitation - Fact sheet - World Health Organization (WHO)(checked 2026-07-18)
And when we do it
A city with enough clean, working toilets keeps its streets and its water everyone's to share - with dignity.
You couldn't have known. Now you do.