Celebrate World Toilet Day 2025 (and beyond)!

Anastasiya Bohomolna
Oct 14
4 min read

The biggest holiday of the year is almost here!🎉 World Toilet Day is coming up on November 19, and we hope you'll celebrate with us or join one of the many events happening around the world!

This year, UN-Water has deemed the holiday's theme as Sanitation in a Changing World.

The campaign reminds us that no matter how much the world changes, we’ll always need toilets. They protect us from disease, keep our environment clean, and help communities stay healthy. But for billions of people globally, safe toilets are still out of reach.

Ensuring toilet access for everyone is a huge task, and with so much happening in the world, it can feel like a lot. That’s why this World Toilet Day, we invite you to take a moment of self-care. We’ve created a fun coloring page for you to enjoy. Relax, color, and reflect on what sanitation means in a changing world!

What's on for World Toilet Day 2025?

There are lots of virtual and in-person events happening for World Toilet Day. Take a look at the list below and see how you can join in!

Before Nov 19th:

HYBRID (USA): Learn about the future of urine recycling and ecological sanitation at Rich Earth Institute's 11th Annual Rich Earth Summit (in person: Oct 15-16, Cape Cod; online: Nov 12-14, Zoom)
ONLINE: Join the public lecture with Dr Preyan Arumugam on the current status of sanitation in South Africa, hosted by the University of Limpopo on Oct 16 to celebrate World Toilet Day!
IN-PERSON (MALAYSIA): Experience water management and treatment processes in Malaysia through the Sungai Semenyih Water Treatment Plant tour on Nov 4!
IN-PERSON (SOUTH AFRICA): Discover the best practices driving sustainable water management and improved sanitation infrastructure in Africa at AWSISA's Africa & Global South Water & Sanitation Dialogue on Nov 9-12!
IN-PERSON (ARGENTINA): Explore WASH in the framework of World Toilet Day through film and discussion on Nov 13-14 at the World Water Film Festival in Buenos Aires, organized by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires, the Museo Moderno, the Argentine Chamber of Water, and the World Water Film Festival.

On Nov 19th:

IN-PERSON (UK): Join the SOAS Shit Conference at the University of London to discuss the past, present, and future of excrement on Nov 18-19.
HYBRID (INDIA): Host a fun and impactful quiz in your institution, organization, or community, on Nov 19 or anytime that week, as one of the quiz masters for Friend In Need India.
IN-PERSON (UK): Explore the history of Winchester toilets on a guided 90-minute walking tour to mark UN World Toilet Day.

IN-PERSON (CANADA): Drop in to the University of Winnipeg on World Toilet Day and listen to Councillor Sherri Rollins discuss the importance of public toilets for human dignity, using Winnipeg's public washroom Amoowigamig as a case study.

IN-PERSON (INDIA): Participate in the global dialogue on Sanitation as Collective Responsibility for Dignity and Planet at the World Toilet Summit 2025 by Sulabh International & the World Toilet Organization from Nov 19-21.

After Nov 19th:

IN-PERSON (UK): Visit the UK Portable Sanitation & Welfare Expo in Warwickshire on Nov 20 and enjoy the UK's largest event focused purely on the portable sanitation industry.
IN-PERSON (SOUTH AFRICA): Join the Plumbing Industry Registration Board at their offices in Centurion on Nov 21 for a fun World Toilet Day celebration featuring exhibitions, training sessions, games, and networking opportunities for everyone in the plumbing industry.

IN-PERSON (USA): Celebrate World Toilet Day at the King County Wastewater with hands-on activities for the whole family and treatment plant tours on Nov 22.

IN-PERSON (EGYPT): Attend the IWWI 2025: Solutions for Water, Recycling and Circularity Exhibit in Egypt from Nov 23-25 to learn more about new environmental technologies and sustainable solutions in WASH.
IN-PERSON (GHANA): Discover products from key water treatment suppliers in Ghana at the Water and Wastewater Exhibition for the international wastewater, water quality, environmental services, chemical treatment, and sanitation industries on Nov 26.
IN-PERSON (UK): Visit the National Drainage Show from Nov 26-27 in London to find out more about a holistic approach to flooding and water level management.

Personal (Online) Activities

Here are some things you can do to make World Toilet Day an everyday celebration:

Organize your own sensitization day using online resources - Our friends at pS-Eau have curated a multilingual virtual library of 400 tools on sanitation and toilets!

Watch this short film about the dangerous job of sewer workers. - This 6-minute documentary focuses on South Asia!
Request a fun toilet class - We have many online class options for adults and kids.

Read some of our toilet thoughts in our regularly updated blog - We've got posts from this year about toilet tourism and exploring toilet concepts!
Check out Twinkl's resources. - They have many fun materials like posters and games to help teach children about World Toilet Day.
Sing along to the WASH Playlist on Spotify - Lots of these tunes are quite catchy! And yes, we do keep updating it.

Learn to talk about toilets better with FLUSH's free resources - We've put together handy guides covering WASH storytelling, trust-building, social media, and more!
Review the articles and stories from UN-Water - They have some expert events up there, too!

Loo Book Club's Toilet Reading List

With personal activities, maybe you just want to sit down to a good toilet book! Check out the Loo Book Club's Toilet reading list (oldies but goodies), with our past reviews linked: