In November 19th each year, is scheduled for the world toilet day. Singapore plays an important role here.

  Singapore's economic miracle and a high degree of civilization to the world's attention. People who have been to Singapore, have a common impression: clean and tidy, people's cultural level, the quality of civilization is very high.

  At the opening of the meeting, the president of the Singapore Public Toilet Association deliberately made a "eliminate concerns" mobilization work, he said: "people should talk about the toilet, it is like talking about food, health and other topics. Only in this way can we improve the public awareness of the toilet, and finally find a way to solve the problem."

  It is true that people are reluctant to talk openly about the toilet. However, the toilet is one of the important places every day can not be separated from. No matter people eat how good, dress is very beautiful, if not a toilet clean and comfortable, always feel that life is not perfect.

  In January 2002, Beijing won the right to host the fourth session of the World Toilet Summit in 2004, the annual World Toilet Summit will be held in China this year. Attend the meeting of all the people who are in charge of the toilet, of course, not the toilet administrator, but WTO's health ministers of the members of the country, etc., is the chief executive of the toilet.

  Toilet problem, is a historical problem, social problems, but also an international problem.

  Nowadays, as public facilities, public toilets are often given as a cultural symbol, which embodies the civilization degree of a city and even a country.

  In nineteenth Century, the United Kingdom, a country to achieve urbanization, because the toilet is not enough, people have to pee everywhere. Can be convenient to rid of according to the records, in residential areas, each 30 buildings full house is a toilet; Paris, the city has been a romantic fashion symbol, but in 1788, Paris people long accustomed to the garden "a row of yew tree size, the Swiss guards them from there, they to the Seine River, and along the banks of the Seine" both unsightly and stink "; a century in the 1970s, due to the Rhine River pollution is serious, the smell is a subsidiary of phenol smell, joking in the river rushed the film, at the time of the Rhine River has been dubbed the" European toilet "this stinks.

  In view of this, the toilet of the developed countries also experienced some unbearable to recall the past, will have this or that kind of problems in the development.

  Kenya, in the year 2001, students took the toilet brush to call for a ban on the movement of the flying toilet. What is called the flying toilet? In a slum in Kenya, on average, 10 thousand people have a toilet. People use plastic bags when they are convenient to solve, and then throw the plastic bag away. It is said that the night will hear from time to time the sound of the object on the roof. This is the flying toilet.

  The toilet with international organizations, and academic research institutions independent sects. With the focus on the toilet, with the progress and development of modern civilization, also recently appeared in an emerging discipline, toilet. As a discipline, toilet with their research fields and objects, theories and views to guide the development of things, a forward-looking thinking and for the future of discovery.

  Toilet science originated in japan. The first toilet association was established in November 10, 1985 in Japan, the National Association of Toilet Association, the association's slogan is to make public toilets clean, clean, cute". Chairman of the association is toilet paper collectors, professor emeritus at the University of Nishioka Hideo, membership reached more than 30 million people, mostly for scholars, architects, environmental experts, health experts and the municipal personnel. Association of academic seminars held every year, a toilet science came into being, the mobile toilet books have been published. Japan national Toilet Association also decided to November 10th each year for the Japanese national toilet day". Japan's toilet Festival has caused repercussions in the world, it was suggested that the establishment of the world toilet association. It seems that the toilet will be more and more people's attention to the world.

  And more meaningful, the United Nations Organization for poverty alleviation program also has a new content. In 2000, the United Nations Children's fund by a decision of 1 million 470 thousand yuan earmarked for China Shaanxi farmers to build a toilet.