Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister David Mahlobo will take part in the World Toilet Summit which will be hosted by the Organized Private Sector in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in collaboration with World Toilet Organisation and the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in Nigeria.

The World Toilet Summit aims to amongst others, improve collaboration among stakeholders around driving accelerated access to sustainable sanitation services, mobilise investment to the sanitation sub-sector, and create an enabling environment for sanitation service delivery through private sector participation.

Under the theme: “Sanitation Innovations for Economic Development”, the summit also seeks to provide the platform to share, learn and interact with diverse stakeholders on different sanitation subthemes, and to afford opportunity to exhibit sanitation products and services. This is a unique global platform in which stakeholders come together and devise means to address sanitation challenges and find solutions.

This summit is a token of continuing efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6) which states that by 2030, countries must have achieved access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all, and primarily end open defaecation.

Source: Government of South Africa