On 19 November we celebrate World Toilet Day. While we might take toilets for granted, billions in the world don’t.

Toilets and all that is related loosely called sanitation play a hugely important role for all of us: not only in our daily lives as we spend time to relieve ourselves, but also for our sustainable, inclusive development.

Toilets are crucial for the healthy development of people, not to mention children.

So is sanitation facilities and services for safe disposal of human urine and faeces includes maintaining hygiene through services such as garbage collection and wastewater disposal.

The overall purpose of good sanitation is to provide a healthy living environment for everyone, protect the natural resources such as surface water, groundwater, and soil, and provide safety, security and dignity for people when they defecate or urinate.

The facts and figures of toilets from the World Sanitation Program, WHO and Water Aid, among others, speaks.