Seminar and water pub to mark UN World Toilet Day

Key messages of the event:

• We will always need toilets. No matter what the future holds, we will always depend on sanitation to protect us from disease and keep our environment clean.
• Toilets are under pressure. Increased demand, climate change, aging infrastructure and low investment are threatening our human right to sanitation.
• We need future-proof toilets. We must immediately invest in sanitation that is ready for the future – resilient to climate change and accessible to everyone, everywhere, always.

PROGRAM

Introduction

• Welcome & Introduction: The Water Association & Stockholm Environment Institute
• Information about this year’s World Toilet Day and IWA Glasgow 4-8 October 2026: IWA Sweden
• Updates and Activities: Toilets without Borders

Outlook – sanitation and circularity

• The Philippines, “urine diverting toilets and reuse of nutrients”, examples from Toilets without borders projects: by Meiyoshi Acabal Masgon: online and live from Cagayan de Oro.
• Burkina Faso projects, “history, lessons learned and effects”: by Linus Dagerskog, SEI
• Mosan Guatemala, “Exciting technology and business model (collection, production of biochar, etc.)”: by Elisabeth Kvarnström
• Open discussion
• IWA specialist groups “Small water and wastewater systems” and “Resources-oriented sanitation”: by Inga Herrmann, LTU
• An international outlook: by Thomas Rebermark

Broader discussion

Continued discussion after the seminar – Water pub
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