World Toilet Summit
The World Toilet Organization started the World Toilet Summit in 2001 to provide a common platform for stakeholders to connect, share, learn and collaborate to meet the global target for sanitation. WTO leverages foreign governments and NGOs to host the World Toilet Summit in different cities each year.
Each summit is aimed at addressing issues of toilet and sanitation from technologies, development, funding, to design, maintenance, social entrepreneurship, capacity building, research and related topics, creating massive media coverage and momentum.
These summits have been held around the world:
- 2012 - Durban, South Africa
- 2011 - Hainan, China
- 2010 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 2009 - Singapore
- 2008 - Macau, China
- 2007 - New Delhi, India
- 2006 - Moscow, Russia
- 2005 - Belfast, Northern Ireland
- 2004 - Beijing, China
- 2003 - Taipei, Taiwan
- 2002 - Seoul, South Korea
- 2001 - Singapore
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