Message from the CEO – World Toilet Day 2025
In a changing world, one thing remains constant: we’ll always need the toilet.
Yet 3.4 billion people still lack access to safely managed sanitation, and that’s nearly half the world’s population. (WHO & UNICEF. (2025). Progress on household drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2024: Special focus on inequalities. UN-Water.). The impact is devastating. Women, girls, and vulnerable communities bear the heaviest burden, facing preventable disease, exclusion from education and work, and the daily loss of safety, dignity, and opportunity.
Solutions already exist. At the Toilet Board Coalition, our purpose is clear: accelerating business solutions to the sanitation crisis. We run the world’s leading Accelerator for Sanitation Economy businesses, supporting entrepreneurs who are turning waste into valuable resources, protecting health and dignity, creating jobs, and developing resilient, circular systems for the future. With the right support, we estimate solutions in this sector can reach at least 1 billion people by 2030, transforming lives and accelerating progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Our impact is powered by our Members and partners, from corporations, NGOs, governments, to investors. We know that collective action works. When all parts of society unite, we can achieve SDG 6 — universal access to water and sanitation and unlock the foundation for progress on every other SDG.
To fully realise this potential, we need everyone in action. Governments have the power to create enabling environments, entrepreneurs are masters of innovation, NGOs can engage communities, corporates can support and scale, and investors can provide the capital to accelerate change. The future of sanitation is here and it’s time to act now.
We invite you to join us.
