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In the past decades, sustainability and biophilia have been gaining momentum across industries as awareness of man’s destruction of the Earth becomes more documented. The Covid-19 pandemic has tipped the scales for this agenda to evolve from trend to necessity. But even before sustainability garnered a greater sense of urgency, Wong Chiu Man and Maria Warner Wong of Wow Architects have been propagating this in their work.
There is Vivanta by Taj, the hotel in Bangalore, India that has an accessible green rooftop that slopes continuously from the ground to the top of the building; the 2012 Archifest Zero Waste Pavilion that was made from upcycled materials which were later repurposed; and the St Regis Maldives resort that is ecological from building to operations. They are currently working on the Mandai eco-resort in Singapore that will nestle guests among conserved trees and is envisioned to be the island nation’s first super low energy resort.
Having grown up in a kampong in the 1950s, Sim knows these dangers first-hand. “We didn’t have a toilet in the house, but a bucket system in the outhouse; there were a lot of incidents of typhoid fever, cholera and intestinal worms.”
Around one billion people still face the indignity of defecating in the open today, and diarrhoeal diseases a direct consequence of poor sanitation kill more children every year than Aids, malaria and measles combined.
Through WTO’s advocacy work, revolutions in sanitation have begun taking place all over the world over the past two decades. In 2013, the organisation was granted consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, and achieved another milestone for the global sanitation movement that year when 122 countries co-sponsored a United Nations (UN) resolution tabled by the Singapore government to designate World Toilet Day, a WTO initiative held annually on 19 November, as an official UN day.