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Clean, Water & Waste

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
  1. What happensUrinating or defecating in the open instead of using a toilet
  2. HowPoor sanitation leaves human waste in the environment where it can contaminate water and surfaces and transmit disease-causing pathogens
  3. 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.

Information, never a verdict. Every fact carries its source and the date we checked it.