KARACHI: Today is World Toilet Day, a day on which the world is reminded that more than 2.5 billion people - over 40% of the world’s population - still have no access to basic sanitation.More than 1.8 million people die every year from diarrhoea-related diseases (including cholera) - 90 per cent of those are children under 5, mostly in developing countries.Improved sanitation could reduce those numbers by one third, according to the World Health Organisation.19 November was declared 'World Toilet Day' in 2001 by 17 toilet associations around the world. Since then there has been established an annual World Toilet Summit and many other regional conferences.Each toilet association has also engaged in many activities promoting clean toilets in their own respective country.Since 2001, World Toilet Day has become a global platform for academics, sanitation experts, toilet designers and environmentalists etc. to share the latest on rural and urban toilets.Here are some more facts about toilets:* An average person visits the toilet 2,500 times a year - that's around 7 times a day, or about 3 years of your life in the bathroom.* Modern toilets use an average of 6 L of water per flush - that's 88,344 L if each one of the 14,724 public toilets in Australia were flushed at the same time.* You could fill a large backyard pool with the 40,000 to 50,000 L of drinking water many of us flush down the toilet each year.* Composting toilets use little or no water and convert waste into fertiliser for the garden!* A leaky toilet cistern can waste more than 60,000 L of water per year. Replacing the rubber seal to prevent that waste of water costs just $2.* An American study found that consumers use 8.6 sheets of loo paper per toilet visit, totalling around 57 sheets per day, and 20,805 sheets per year.
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