
World Toilet Day is observed and celebrated annually on November 19 since 2001. This international day of action aims to break the taboo around toilets and draw attention to the global sanitation crisis. Since 2001 the World Toilet Day has become a global platform for academics, sanitation experts, toilet designers, and environmentalists etc. to share the latest to improve rural and urban toilets.
TED takes a leading role in celebrating World Toilet Day 2012 in Lesotho.
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500 Basotho demonstrate for the Human Right to water and sanitation.
A report by Max Träger, TED

Taking quality control seriously, the TED team traveled through Lesotho to visit and assess a number of their older biogas systems.
A report by Felician Mink, TED

Playing the"brown ball game" at Leribe High School to spread the WASH message about the importance of sanitation and hygiene.

TED-volunteer Felician Mink reports about one of the less agreeable tasks of digester maintenance: re-waxing the inside of one.







