This year has seen a lot of effort by public service groups and governments to stress on the importance of sanitation at home and outside, as well the need for toilets in not only cities, but villages as well. When Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, one of his key stated missions was to build toilets across rural India, so that every household has access to sanitation facilities. Today i.eYesterday we have celebrated World Toilet Day. So, have a look at Toilets all over the world in these pics:
1. A mobile toilet is parked on a road in Kathmandu, Nepal, October 9, 2015. The word written on the vehicle reads “toilet” in Nepalese.
2. The first light of dawn illuminates Mount Everest as the moon shines above and a toilet block is seen in the foreground in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, April 29, 2008.
3. A toilet stands in the middle of an empty field on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, October 8, 2015
4. Urinals inspired by the Rolling Stones lips and tongue logo are seen in a bar in Paris, October 15, 2015
5. A public toilet for men is seen in Oscar Freire street in Sao Paulo, November 4, 2015. The toilet was designed by Jade Jagger, daughter of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger.
6. A toilet cubicle with glass walls stands in a fenced off garden at Itabu railway station in the Chiba prefecture east of Tokyo October 13, 2015. Dubbed “the world’s most spacious public toilet” by local media, the lady’s outhouse is a glass cubicle with a fully functioning toilet that stands in a garden.
7. A miniature roll of toilet paper is shown in the “bathroom” of the Astolat Castle, a 3 metre (9 foot) tall dollhouse, currently on display in New York November 14, 2015.
8. Graffiti is painted on the bathroom walls at a restaurant in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn borough in New York, United States, October 1, 2015.
9. Public toilets are seen in Eidsvolls Plass in Oslo, Norway, October 15, 2015.
10. Toilets donated by Unicef and World Vision stand near tents at a Syrian refugee settlement camp in Qab Elias in the Bekaa Valley, near Baalbek, Lebanon October 17, 2015.
11. A one-way mirror is seen above the urinal at Streeter’s Tavern in Chicago, Illinois, United States, September 30, 2015. Customers using the the bathroom can see into the main area of the bar, but cannot be seen by the people at the bar.
12. A toilet is seen in a hostel for asylum seekers in Augsburg near Munich, southern Germany, August 27, 2015.
13. A toilet floats on the river Nun near Yenagoa, Bayelsa state in Nigeria’s delta region October 8, 2015.
14. A woman passes near the entrance to a toilet in a makeshift shelter used by a Palestinian family in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 13, 2015. The family’s house was destroyed by, what witnesses said, was Israeli shelling during a 50-day war in the summer of 2014.
15. A damaged toilet stands amidst rubble in the town of Douma in eastern Ghouta of Damascus October 17, 2015.
16. A migrant uses a field as a toilet at the Greek-Macedonian border near the Greek village of Idomeni August 22, 2015. Thousands of refugees and migrants camped in no man’s land waiting to cross the border.
17. A public toilet made of rusty sheets of metal stands in Gatwekera village in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, October 12, 2015.
18. A public toilet stands surrounded by snow near the 2011 Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station north of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, March 18, 2011.
19. A dog runs past a bar toilet in the Turano slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 1, 2015.
20. A domestic toilet is seen in a house in Mexico City, Mexico October 6, 2015.
21. A cash register sits on a table in a ladies’ public toilet in downtown Algiers, Algeria October 17, 2015.
22. The entrance to a public toilet with escalator ramps is seen in Istanbul, Turkey, October 9, 2015.
23. Newspapers lie on a toilet seat in a house in Mandalay, Myanmar, October 5, 2015.
24. A toilet stands in a field on private property in the town of Yuzhno-Kurilsk on Kunashir Island which is part of the Kuril Islands group in Russia, September 16, 2015.
25. A toilet stands outside the Llamocca family home at Villa Lourdes in Villa Maria del Triunfo on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, October 7, 2015. There is no running water in Villa Lourdes and families buy it from water tankers once a week.
World Toilet Day aims to raise awareness about all people who do not have access to a toilet, despite the basic human right to water and sanitation. It is a global development priority and the water crisis itself is the number one global risk based on impact to society, according to the World Economic Forum.