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World Toilet Day 2024: Toilets – A Place for Peace

World Toilet Day was established in 2001 by the World Toilet Organization and is an official United Nations observance. Every year on November 19, the day aims to raise awareness of the global sanitation crisis, in which 3.5 billion people still lack access to safe sanitation facilities. The day is also intended to inspire both small and large-scale initiatives to address the sanitation crisis.

To mark World Toilet Day, the team behind the wasser^plus OWL project is screening the documentary *Holy Shit*. In this documentary, director Rubén Abruna takes viewers on a journey around the world, exploring how people are finding creative solutions for processing human waste. On this journey, Rubén Abruna challenges the conventional view of excrement as waste to be flushed down the toilet. The film invites viewers to consider human excrement as a valuable resource that should be reused.

In addition, other activities will take place on the campus in Detmold that day, including a poster campaign and an exhibition in the lobby of Building 2.

All information about the film screening:

November 19, 2024, Doors open: 7:00 PM, Start: 7:30 PM
Kreativ Campus Detmold
Building 7, Room 7.121
Bielefelder Straße 66
32756 Detmold

Admission is free!

There will be a raffle before the screening!

About the project:

The wasser^plus OWL project is a cross-sectoral network for water management in Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The cooperation platform strengthens networking among water management sections at the TH OWL campuses in Detmold and Höxter. The rural region of Ostwestfalen-Lippe serves as the geographical reference area, with its specific conditions for municipal public services, such as public water supply and wastewater disposal. Additionally, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) is integrated as an interface to the urban area and is involved as a partner in the consortium. The networking of RUB with the water associations operating in the Ruhr region is intended to serve as a transfer model for the OWL region. The launch team of the cooperation platform also includes the City of Detmold, the Detmold District Government, the districts of Lippe and Höxter, Stadtwerke Detmold GmbH, and Stadtentwässerung Paderborn as cooperation partners from the field of water management.

The wasser^plus OWL cooperation platform is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia.

For more information:

About the wasser^plus OWL project