WaterAid’s Good Loos to provide ultimate relief at this summer’s festivals
WaterAid is bringing a unique toilet experience to UK festivals this summer with its new 'Good Loos', providing environmentally-friendly and sustainable compost toilets alongside a new art exhibition and chill-out area, with sofas and mirrors to help refresh revellers.
The Good Loos will be available at Camp Bestival and Bestival in Dorset, The Good Life Experience in Flintshire, Green Man in South Wales, and Shambala in Northamptonshire.
An army of WaterAid volunteers will be on-hand to clean the compost loos between uses, and keep the chill-out area tidy, making them THE place for a little relief before heading back to the festival fun, and helping make the festival experience just that bit more pleasant. They will also be raising awareness of the international charity’s life-saving work across the world.
By giving a £2 donation to use the Good Loos, festival-goers will be supporting WaterAid’s work to build toilets in some of the world’s poorest communities. For every £150 raised, WaterAid can build a toilet in Rwanda.
Festival-goers will also get a preview of WaterAid’s new art exhibition, featuring photography by Ethiopian contemporary artist, Aida Muluneh.
Globally, one in nine people lack access to clean water and a staggering one in three have nowhere decent and private to go to the toilet. Every day, around 800 children die from diarrhoeal diseases caused by a lack of these basic facilities.
Gaining access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene behaviour can transform whole communities, helping improve health, education and people’s livelihoods.
Sian Lamprey from WaterAid, said:
"We're really excited about bringing our new ‘Good Loos’ to festivals this summer, and helping improve the festival toilet experience, while raising awareness of how WaterAid’s work is helping lift entire communities out of poverty. Whether queuing to get a drink, waiting to use the toilet, or not being as clean as they’d like to be, festival-goers can start to understand what it’s like for the 884 million people living without clean water and the 2.3 billion people with nowhere safe to go to the toilet."
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For more information, please contact Laura Crowley, PR Manager, [email protected] or +44 (0)207 793 4965. Or call WaterAid’s after-hours press line on +44 (0)7887 521 552 or email [email protected].
WaterAid
WaterAid’s vision is of a world where everyone has access to clean water and sanitation. The international not-for-profit organisation works in 34 countries to change the lives of the poorest and most marginalised people. Since 1981, WaterAid has reached 25.8 million people with clean water and 25.1 million people with decent toilets. For more information, visit www.wateraid.org/uk, follow @WaterAidUK or @WaterAidPress on Twitter, or visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wateraid.
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844 million people in the world – one in nine – do not have clean water close to home.[1]
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2.3 billion people in the world – almost one in three – do not have a decent toilet of their own.[2]
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Around 289,000 children under five die every year from diarrhoeal diseases caused by poor water and sanitation. That's almost 800 children a day, or one child every two minutes.[3]
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Every £1 invested in water and toilets returns an average of £4 in increased productivity.[4]
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Just £24 can provide one person with clean water.[5]
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To find out if countries are keeping their promises on water and sanitation, see the online database www.WASHwatch.org
[1] WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017 update and SDG Baselines
[2] WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2017 update and SDG Baselines
[3] washwatch.org
[4] World Health organization (2012) Global costs and benefits of drinking-water supply and sanitation interventions to reach the MDG target and universal coverage
