World Toilet Day is about inspiring action to tackle the global sanitation crisis. Today, 4.5 billion people live without a household toilet that safely disposes of their waste. The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include the goal of ensuring that everyone have access to a safely managed household toilet by 2030. This makes decent sanitation central to eradicating extreme poverty. In 2013, the United Nations General Assembly officially designated November 19 as World Toilet Day, which is coordinated by UN-Water in collaboration with governments and partners. Here: A picture taken on November 14, 2017 shows a public toilet at Klafthmonos square in Athens, Greece. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP Photo)





Rows and rows of portable toilets are stacked around the US Capitol and the National Mall on January 11, 2009, set up for the January 20, 2009 inauguration of the US president-elect Barack Obama. Reports say 5,000 portable toliets have been ordered, but not enough for the millions of people expected to attend. (Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP Photo)





A private toilet is pictured in the Mosafote village, in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria on November 16, 2017. (Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP Photo)





A man uses a urinal at a public toilet in the Plateau business district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast on November 14, 2017. (Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP Photo)





A woman uses a public toilet in Jakarta, Indonesia on November 14, 2017. (Photo by Bay Ismoyo/AFP Photo)





A man rolls up his trousers before using a public toilet on November 8, 2017 in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)





A family public toilet at Haewoojae Culture Center in Suwon, south of Seoul on November 10, 2017. South Korean sanitation activist Sim Jae-Duck built a toilet-shaped house in order to celebrate the establishment of the World Toilet Association in 2007. He named it Haewoojae, which means “a house to relive ones concerns”, a term used in temples when referring to the restroom. (Photo by Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Photo)





An open-air toilet and a hot spring shower are seen in the middle of nowhere on the road to the Krafla geothermal power station and lava fields, near Reykjahlid and Lake Myvatn in northeastern Iceland, on August 19, 2012. (Photo by Mariana Suarez/AFP Photo)





Indian men use a public toilet on a street in Amritsar, India on November 12, 2017. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A boy walks past portable toilets at an informal settlement in Khayelitsha, a mostly impoverished township, about 35km from the centre of Cape Town, South Africa on November 10, 2017. (Photo by Rodger Bosch/AFP Photo)





A picture taken on November 15, 2017 shows a man using a public toilet of Dakar, Senegal. (Photo by Seyllou/AFP Photo)





A photograph taken on November 12, 2017 shows the interior of the historic public toilet at the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leasure in Moscow, Russia. The public toilet in the park was built in 1933 by the Soviet architect A.V. Vlassov and is an example of the Socialist Realism movement in the Soviet block's architecture and culture. (Photo by Mladen Antonov/AFP Photo)





A picture taken on November 15, 2017 shows a squat toilet of a public toilet of Dakar, Senegal. (Photo by Seyllou/AFP Photo)





A Palestinian man walks into a cubicle at a public toilets in the city centre of the West Bank town of Hebron on November 14, 2017. (Photo by Hazem Bader/AFP Photo)





A man walks into public toilets in the Plateau business district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast on November 14, 2017. (Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP Photo)





A member of staff cleans the ornate men's toilets in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms in Liverpool, north west England on November 15, 2017. The renowned pub, restaurant and meeting place is Grade II listed building but the gentlemen's toilets within the building are Grade I listed, considered higher in special architectural or historic interest than the building where it sits. (Photo by Paul Ellis/AFP Photo)





People walk by public toilets at the Port of Piraeus, near Athens, Greece on November 15, 2017. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP Photo)





A woman throws out waste water next to a line of toilets in an informal settlement in Langa, a mostly impoverished township, about 10km from the centre of Cape Town, on November 12, 2017. (Photo by Rodger Bosch/AFP Photo)





A man cleans public toilets on November 7, 2017 in the Kawangware district of Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo by Simon Maina/AFP Photo)





A woman cleans a toilet in an impoverished neighbourhood near a lagoon in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on November 14, 2017. (Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP Photo)





A picture shows portable toilets near Porta Maggiore, on November 14, 2017 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP Photo)





Indian youths use a mobile toilet facility at a park in Hyderabad, India on November 10, 2017. (Photo by Noah Seelam/AFP Photo)





An Indian man uses a public toilet in Amritsar on November 15, 2017. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A dog looks on as a worker cleans a picture portable toilet cabin on the grounds of a rental company, the Toi-Toi Ltd, in an industrial area of Pilisvorosvar, about 20 km from the Hungarian capital Budapest, on November 16, 2017. (Photo by Attila Kisbenedek/AFP Photo)





Shanty houses with hanging toilets, with waste that runs straight into the river below, are seen in downtown Jakarta, Indonesia on November 14, 2017. (Photo by Bay Ismoyo/AFP Photo)





Toilets painted in red are seen on the garden of a hotel in Isla Grande, 100 km from Panama City, Panama on November 11, 2017. (Photo by Rodrigo Arangua/AFP Photo)





A man walks past a public toilet with a sign reading “Out of Service” at Pushkinskaya Square in downtown Moscow, Russia on November 15, 2017. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





Indian men urinate outside of a locked public toilet on a street in Amritsar on November 12, 2017. (Photo by Narinder Nanu/AFP Photo)





A picture taken on November 12, 2017 shows a portable toilet placed on a street lane during urban works, in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria. (Photo by Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP Photo)