WaterAid unveiled The Living Loos at Glastonbury Festival. Abundant with edible plants able to withstand a changing climate, the installation, created by award-winning garden designer Tom Massey, incorporates the festival’s very own toilet compost from previous years.
The ‘Living Loos’ sit amongst lush vegetation, vibrant with fruit and vegetables commonly grown by communities where the international charity works. Banana plants and citrus such as orange and lemon trees are thriving alongside tasty vegetables including sweetcorn, tomatoes and chilli peppers. Center-stage is a fully-functioning composting loo, surrounded by four others protruding with plant life, to highlight the importance of the one in five people without a decent toilet - almost 1.7 billion of the world’s population.
The striking, eco-friendly toilet garden is raising awareness of WaterAid’s ‘Our Climate Fight’. The campaign calls on the UK Government to ensure everyone has decent toilets and clean water to be able to withstand a changing climate, by investing at least one third of their committed international climate budget directly into projects that bring these essentials.
Increasingly volatile weather around the world is causing extreme flooding, heatwaves and intense droughts, often destroying water and sanitation systems. But clean water and decent toilets bring hope, changing people’s health, education, livelihoods and safety while also enabling communities to build resilience and take charge of their lives.
Even some of the more exotic plants in the installation will increasingly be able to be grown outside in the UK - an exciting, yet deeply alarming fact. Adaptation is key to survival wherever we may be, as many communities living on the frontline of climate change could tell you.
Find out more at www.wateraid.org
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