The 85.1% of Ghanaians do not have access to toilets - WaterAid

India now has 60.4% of its people without access to safe, private toilets.

"Here in the U.S., it's all too easy to take our access to safe, private toilets for granted; worrying about where to "go" is not something that most of us have to think about", said WaterAid America CEO Sarina Prabasi.

For World Toilet Day, Reuters photographers have brought together an unbelievable photo essay - "Around the World in 45 Toilets".

More than one billion people do not have toilets. While, in 2013, a joint initiative was taken by the Government of Singapore and the World Toilet Organization in order to recognize World Toilet Day as a UN Day by passing the resolution Sanitation for All' Resolution (67/291). The Swachch Bharat campaign that has given the sanitation agenda a few much-needed vigour is still a mammoth task.

With festive tourism growing and most travellers taking to religious destinations, Religious Places saw 86% travellers demand the necessity for toilets in and around religious temples and other historical places of religious significance.

"Sanitation, which is the safe separation of faeces and refuse from human contact and the environment, ensures that people are protected from the spread of preventable diseases such as soil-transmitted helminthiasis, diarrhea, chronic malnutrition in children and cholera".

The remote and under-developed mountainous Kohistan district is also known for open defecation, but neither government nor private social organisations can work there due to local social restrictions, according to officials.

About 99 per cent travellers in the country said there is a need for more toilets across tourism destinations and spots in the country, a survey conducted by travel community HolidayIQ said.

Promoting the health benefit of sanitation is also key to improving sanitation practices in Nigeria. "Sanitation is a serious issue". Ultimately, it can't deliver on the overarching aim - the world free from extreme poverty by 2030. In the United Kingdom, in Europe, in South Korea, in Singapore, and in many other countries, strong leadership, political will and sufficient funding for sanitation have dramatically changed public health and modernised societies. Around 45 percent of the population had access to a mobile phone, while only 31 percent were lucky to have access to a toilet. Numerous world's poorest countries who are most in need of aid for sanitation and hygiene are receiving the least because they don't meet donors' strategic priorities.

During the mock parliament session, Rukaya Mohammed, a pupil from Kotobabi JHS, extolled the importance of hygiene and sanitation to the lives of pupils.

Goal 6 focuses on ensuring the sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Without toilets, health and hygiene become questionable and contaminated water breeds illness and disease.

There will also be a queue for toilet and a handwashing demonstration, a role play on stopping open defecation by pupils and commitment statements from national stakeholders, as well as partner organisations.