GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Investing In A Better Future ESTIMATED 2.3 BILLION PEOPLE LACK ACCESS TO PROPER SANITATION

APPROXIMATELY 900 MILLION PEOPLE DEFECATE IN THE OPEN ON A DAILY BASIS THE CHALLENGES 800 CHILDREN UNDER 5 DIE EVERY DAY FROM WE DIARRHEAL DISEASES FACE

An estimated 2.3 billion people – a place away from school or home to $22.2 billion in Latin America and the one out of every three in the world relieve themselves increases the risk Caribbean, and $19.3 billion in . today – live without access to proper of harassment and assault. Girls also sanitation. Approximately 900 million fall behind because they do not have Recognizing the magnitude of the still defecate in the open on a daily a place at school to dispose of sanitary global sanitation crisis and its effect ECONOMIC LOSSES basis. These are figures with a napkins during their menstrual cycles, on people’s lives, LIXIL is leveraging devastating human cost: An estimated forcing them to stay away from class. its global scale and expertise to deliver ESTIMATED AT 800 children under 5 years of age viable solutions to developing die every day from diarrheal disease The impact of this sanitation crisis communities. caused by a lack of hygienic water and is felt throughout entire nations and US$223 BILLION IN sanitary living conditions. regions, crippling opportunities for growth and development. According 2015 Insufficient sanitation in schools is also to research conducted with Oxford one of the leading reasons young girls Economics, global economic losses drop out of education early, creating from poor sanitation were estimated at a vicious cycle of a lack of education US$223 billion in 2015, an increase of and poverty. In addition to being more than 20 percent from five years embarrassing for women and girls to earlier. For the -Pacific region the defecate in the open, having to find figure was $172 billion, followed by 1 BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

Supporters’ Voices

“Seeing a smile on somebody’s face, seeing someone’s dignity up, is satisfaction.”

Brenda Achiro Muthemba Water for People,

“I dream to see the girls from Mukuru going to school, finishing school, getting good jobs so that they can change where they grow from. So the passion in me is that I’m part of change.”

Dorice Bosiburi Moseti Community activist, Mukuru, Nairobi,

LIXIL’S Users’ Voices “Today I’m very happy because my life will improve. I won’t get flies on my food, and my children and I will be POWER healthier.” Fred Sekamate LIXIL has pledged to provide better that no one solution New user in Namagera Village, sanitation to 100 million people by can hope to solve Wakiso, Uganda 2020. As the global leader in sanitary the entire problem. ware, we are taking the expertise we LIXIL is therefore FOR have developed in markets such as developing , Europe and the a number of “We used to put up a curtain and and applying it to the sanitation products to fit queue outside waiting to use the toilet. challenge. different markets, We used to get injured by the broken infrastructure and iron sheets. The ones we have now, We are also teaming with partners income levels in CHANGE they are very good. Boys can’t see us; such as UNICEF, the Japan developing nations. they’re clean.” International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and WaterAid to ensure our Our primary solutions comprise the Teresia Soykau John, 13 years old, efforts reach as many people as SATO series, the Micro Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya possible. In addition, LIXIL is a steering System, the Green Toilet System committee member of the Toilet Board and System. Each Coalition, a global alliance of leading represents LIXIL’s dedication to companies, government agencies, improving the quality of people’s daily sanitation experts and non-profit lives, delivering safe and comfortable organizations that aims to develop products through responsible, sustainable, scalable measures to sustainable innovation. tackle the sanitation crisis.

The global sanitation issue is a daunting one, so large and complex 2 3 Power in Simplicity

SATO products feature an airtight, counterweighted door that quickly seals to prevent the passage of odors and flying insects. Approximately 0.2 - 1L of water is needed for each flush. ❶

❶ User relieves themselves ❷ User pours water into the pan, which opens the trap door and flushes the waste ❸ The counter-weight trap door closes to keep odors and flies away

❷ SATO ❸ Preventing the of disease and odors, and reducing REAL SOLUTIONS open FOR REAL PEOPLE

Millions of people in rural areas around need only a small amount of water for the world still defecate in the open, each flush. They are safe for children into a open pit or over an inadequate to use and feature smooth, easy-to- pit , exposing them to noxious clean surfaces. More than 1.2 million smells and the risk of disease. To units are already in use around the Each product in the SATO series address this critical problem, LIXIL has world, benefiting 6 million people is designed to suit the needs created the SATO series of through their simple yet powerful and preferences of users in products, utilizing a design approach designs. different areas. Certain models, widely known as “frugal innovation,” for example, are tailored to areas which seeks original solutions that are The SATO series was honored with a where concrete is not widely used affordable, simple and sustainable. “Patents for Humanity” award from in the construction of , the U.S. Department of Commerce in while another is intended for The first SATO model was developed 2015. places where a seat is culturally with funding from the Bill and Melinda preferred to a squat toilet. All are Gates Foundation and launched in affordably priced, to allow as many in 2013. people as possible to benefit. Easily installed and extremely inexpensive to buy – less than $2 per unit in Bangladesh – SATO products 4 More than 1.2 million units provided for use

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❶ Haiti ❾ Uganda SATO BRAND PRODUCTS ARE SPREADING AROUND ❷ Mauritania ❿ Kenya ❸ Ghana ⓫ Ethiopia THE WORLD – IMPROVING THE LIVES OF 6 MILLION ❹ Nigeria ⓬ PEOPLE IN MORE THAN 15 COUNTRIES.1 ❺ Zambia ⓭ Nepal ❻ Malawi ⓮ Bangladesh 1 Based on: no. of SATO units produced. Average 5 users per unit. ❼ ⓯ As of March 2017 ❽ ⓰

6 7 The Green Toilet System converts waste into value, safely processing human excrement into fertilizer and providing that value to farmers through MICRO the creation of a viable business GREEN model.

Solid and liquid waste are separated to prevent odors and prepare for its FLUSH subsequent conversion into fertilizer, TOILET with maintenance workers collecting the waste from different tanks behind the toilet and transporting it to a compost facility. TOILET Currently under development, the SYSTEM Green Toilet System is aimed at communities with no water and sewage infrastructure, or that are too The system also creates employment spread out to justify a large sewage for collection services and compost system. No water is used to transport facilities, providing a financial incentive SYSTEM the waste, circumventing the need for to prevent dumping. Liquid Solid a traditional sewage system, including a treatment plant or septic tank, and In addition to private households, the Using far less water per flush than a type toilet that is easy to clean and protecting groundwater and other Green Toilet System can also help to regular toilet, and recycling sewage maintain. resources from contamination. improve sanitation in schools. Such water to assist the flow in outside initiatives will enable girls to continue pipes, the Micro Flush Toilet System A flapper valve in the toilet bowl is Excavation is unnecessary, as all Green their education by rectifying the significantly reduces the consumption operated with a handle, and the valve Toilet facilities are constructed above unhygienic conditions and lack of of precious clean water. If this system and accumulated water prevent odors ground, and minimum energy input is privacy that force so many to drop out, Fertilizer Soil Conditioner were installed in 100,000 households from entering the room. A steeply involved since electricity and fuel are limiting their future job opportunities in Mombasa, it could save 2.5 million angled pipe connected to the toilet not required to burn human waste. and earning potential. tons of water annually, equivalent to and the sewage water system assists 11% of the city’s water supply. the overall flow of waste.

The Micro Flush Toilet System is Given its infrastructure needs, the particularly aimed at mitigating Micro Flush Toilet System should be problems related to scarce or incorporated into a building’s overall The Portable Toilet System is an in- unreliable water resources and the structure in the initial phase of its home sanitation solution designed for environment in urban areas, where design. It is best suited to locations urban slums that lack proper sanitation the population is rapidly increasing. where legal and financial support infrastructure. It is being developed Suitable for both stand-alone homes is available, such as areas being and field-tested to offer disadvantaged PORTABLE and multi-unit buildings, it avoids redeveloped under city planning households an ‘odorless’ toilet from clogging of the sewage system. It guidelines. which human waste can be collected also features a comfortable sitting- and treated hygienically and efficiently. The system consists of a compact, TOILET attractive, stand-alone toilet and a 1L 1L 1L collection station. The toilet, which has a mechanism for minimizing odors, can be easily placed in any household. It is equipped with a removable cartridge, which is transported from SYSTEM individual homes to a designated collection station, where the waste Drain inside the cartridge is deposited and Collection Treatment Pump the cartridge cleaned. Professional Station Site waste treatment companies then collect the accumulated waste from the station and transport it to an offsite treatment site.

Sanitary sewage Re-uses sewage water to carry waste storage tank

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