Code Council and ASPE Present First U.S. World Toilet Summit

PORT WASHINGTON, NY, 6 July, 2010 - After nearly a decade of hosting their annual World Toilet Summit (WTS) mainly in Asia, the World Toilet Organization (WTO) has instead opted to hold it in the United States for the first time. The 2010 International Code Council World Toilet Summit will be presented by the Code Council and hosted by the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) during this year’s ASPE Convention and Engineered Plumbing Exposition to be held October 30 – November 3 in Philadelphia.

This joint ASPE and ICC WTS conference came about as a result of the Code Council’s strong relationships with both ASPE and the WTO. For the past several years, the WTO and the Code Council’s Plumbing, Mechanical and Fuel Gas (PMG) Group have been partnering on various initiatives in an effort to help improve sanitation conditions worldwide. The Code Council also recently signed an MOU with ASPE that focuses on collaborating on programs that will advance the plumbing industry. Bringing all three of these organizations together to promote plumbing and sanitation innovations and commerce opportunities was a perfect fit.

The theme of the 2010 ICC WTS is “2.6 Billion Sanitation Business Opportunities.” Holding both the ASPE and ICC WTS events under one roof will dramatically expand the education, networking and overall business opportunities for ASPE, ICC and WTO attendees.

The key tracks the World Toilet Summit will feature are Innovations in Global Toilet Design, Bottom of the Pyramid Market (1.8 billion of the 2.6 billion people without proper sanitation who have purchasing power) and Micro Financing, Advocacy and Potty Parity, and the Cleaning and Personal Care Market. This conference will reveal how to capitalize on these huge markets while helping to solve the sanitation crisis at the same time. The ICC-focused tracks are Green and Codes & Standards, which both round out the WTS’s sanitation topics and complement ASPE’s tracks perfectly.

Aside from reaching business decision makers, another objective of bringing the WTS to the U.S. is to dramatically heighten awareness of the global sanitation crisis among U.S. policymakers, organizations, and the general public in order to continue to grow support for this cause, both short- and long-term.

For more information about WTS, please visit http://worldtoilet.org/ourwork5.asp?no=1. You will also find the online registration form for the summit there.

For more information about the 2010 ASPE ICC WTS Convention, visit www.aspe.org, www.iccsafe.org or www.worldtoilet.org.
If you'd like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with World Toilet Organization founder, Jack Sim, please call Claudia Powers at +65 6352-8921 or e-mail Claudia at Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir.

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