19/11/2024
WORLD TOILET DAY
A Toilet is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human waste such as urine and f***s, and sometimes toilet paper, usually for disposal. Flush toilets use water, while dry or non-flush toilets do not. In urban areas, flush toilets are usually connected to a sewer system; in isolated areas, to a septic tank. The waste is known as blackwater and the combined effluent, including other sources, is sewage. Dry toilets are connected to a pit, removable container, composting chamber, or other storage and treatment device, including urine diversion with a urine-diverting toilet.
In private homes, depending on the region and style, the toilet may exist in the same bathroom as the sink, bathtub, and shower. Products like urinal blocks and toilet blocks help maintain the smell and cleanliness of toilets.
Historically, sanitation has been a concern from the earliest stages of human settlements. However, many poor households in developing countries use very basic, and often unhygienic, toilets – and nearly one billion people have no access to a toilet at all; they must openly defecate and urinate. These issues can lead to the spread of diseases transmitted via the fecal-oral route, or the transmission of waterborne diseases such as cholera and dysentery. Therefore, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 6 wants to "achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation".
Today, the world Toilet Day, we are rightly advised that living healthy is also tied to the kind of place we defecate and ensuring that it is properly cleaned and well kept as it helps to enhance our chance of living healthy, stronger and longer.
The Presbyterian community services and development encourages individuals, families and the society at large to always use the appropriate place to defecate and to also keep it clean so as to promote adequate sound living and avoid the spread of diseases all over the places just as God in psalms 91: 16 has assure us that he will satisfy us with long live and show us his salvation, we on our part are to take up the proper responsibilities so his words manifest in our lives.
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