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5 Facts About Toilets That Will Help You Understand How Your Toilet is Saving Your Life
By World Toilet Organization, curated by Sammy Ginsberg A clean and safe toilet ensures health, dignity and well-being – yet 40% of the world’s population does not have access to toilets. Some 297,000 children – more than 800 every day – under five die annually from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation, poor hygiene, or…
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A global ‘toilet revolution’ is underway – but it’s polluting water and ignoring the urban poor
By Dejana Iossifova (University of Manchester), Purva Dewoolkar (University of Manchester), and Youcao Ren (University of Manchester), first published on The Conversation, Nov. 19, 2019 Self-constructed toilets in Siddharth Nagar, Mumbai. Purva Dewoolkar, Author provided Don’t take toilets for granted. Their connection to a managed sewage disposal system protects you from diseases and infections that…
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The First Rotary Club Project: Public Toilets
By Sammy Ginsberg As you may or may not know, the first ever community service project by the Rotary Club (which was the World’s first Service Club) was the construction of public toilets in Chicago in 1907. Chicago’s first public comfort station (what a term! haha) was established on the northeastern corner of Washington and…
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Happy Toilet Campaign
By Virginia C. Li For all China’s antiquity and scenic beauty, its tourist industry has not flourished to the degree it should, because tourists’ bad experiences with public toilets. In China, your nose is all you need to locate the public toilets wherever you go. One time, I was on a luxury cruise from Hong…
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Toilet Roll Art
By Alice Bradshaw Winter can be a difficult time of year to feel motivated to do anything, let alone sit in a cold shed-studio making work. Some tactics I fall back on when feeling unmotivated and uninspired include doodling in my sketch pad (in the warmth of the house), reading and watching artists’ lectures on…
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Toilet Quiz
By Angelique Neumann Many of us use toilets as vehicles for escape. Noisy party? Overwhelming family gathering? Crying fit? Boring workday? Bad date? A peep into someone else’s medicine cabinet? They are a haven. But have you ever thought about using them as actual vehicles for escape into… outerspace? Alright, hear me out. During one…
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The Feminist Toilet #1
the shit you’ve been waiting for an anthology of toilet///lit Edited by Sammy Ginsberg & Brian Sonia-Wallace “How vulnerable can you be half naked on the toilet with your pants around your ankles and just a little bit of shit hanging from your asshole. Pretty fucking vulnerable, I will tell you that.” – On the…