Exeter employees support World Toilet Day

A group of 75 South West Water employees came together to raise awareness for 2.5 billion people without a toilet, at Peninsula House in Rydon Lane, on World Toilet Day (this week.

The water and sewerage company was supporting the work of international charity WaterAid which helps transform the lives of some of the world's poorest people.

South West Water's Employee Development Consultant Susie Golics, who is also WaterAid Regional Representative in the South West, said: "It is astonishing that in 2013 around 2.5 billion people worldwide are denied the basic human right of having access to a toilet. It impacts on their health, education and economic prosperity.

"It can cost as little as £15 to enable one person to access a lasting supply of clean water, improved sanitation and hygiene, so even small amounts can make a huge difference to some of the world's poorest people. Thank you to everyone who is taking action this World Toilet Day."

Staff who took part work for South West Water, its parent company Pennon Group, call centre Source Contact Management and engineering partners H5O.                       

It's not the first time South West Water staff have raised awareness for World Toilet Day. In 2011, a queue of 90 employees lined up for one portable toilet to highlight how fortunate we are in the UK to have ready access to safe water and sanitation. Last year, a group of 57 female employees formed an unusual queue for the loo to raise awareness for one in three women worldwide who don't have anywhere safe to go to the toilet.