KIGALI, Rwanda — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the launch of a strategy to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world.
In a keynote address at the 2011 AfricaSan Conference in Kigali, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, president of the foundation’s Global Development Program, called on …
Continue reading Gates Foundation Launches Effort to Reinvent the ToiletPoliticians seem to believe that if we simply force lower and lower amounts of water in toilets that all will be fine. We feel that they have a lot to learn.
For a number of years now in order to save water as well as desiring to treat and process less sewage, San Francisco has …
Continue reading Super ultra low flow toilets are causing problems for the City of San Franciscocourtesy of CNET News – by William Harwood
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Houston–The new toilet in the U.S. Destiny laboratory module aboard the International Space Station broke down Sunday, forcing the combined 13-member shuttle-station crew to share a single Russian toilet and one aboard the shuttle Endeavour until the problem is resolved.
“When you get a …
Continue reading New space station toilet ‘out of order’courtesy of BBC News
A Nasa shuttle, carrying seven astronauts, has docked with the International Space Station as part of a mission to refit its living quarters.
The Endeavour is carrying 14,000lb (6,350kg) of fittings to allow the station to accommodate six crew members instead of the current three.
A new astronaut, Sandra Magnus, is …
Continue reading Shuttle docks with space station – Gets second toiletcourtesy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – June 01, 2008 – by Ty Tagami
Wary shoppers know all about kicking the tires on used cars and squeezing the fruit at grocery stores.
But are they ready to lift the lids on toilet tanks?
Home buyers in DeKalb County GA should get used to the idea, now …
Continue reading Too-thirsty toilets won’t get water in DeKalb, Georgiacourtesy of The Boston Globe – by Keith O’Brien
WORCESTER – If there was ever a man who could appreciate a good toilet, it is Russell Manoog.
He has dedicated the last 20 years to collecting toilets, as well as sinks and other accoutrements of indoor plumbing, the way other men collect golf shirts, trophy …
Continue reading Toilet Museum – A Final Flush Is Avoidedcourtesty of the San Francisco Business Times
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that would require all new construction in California to use toilets and urinals that are more water-efficient. Assemblyman John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) said AB 715 is the first of its kind in the nation and will yield savings of more than …
Continue reading California governor signs water-efficient toilet billcourtesty of Telegraph.co.uk – by Duncan Hooper
Health and sanitation experts from 40 countries will meet in New Delhi later this month for the seventh World Toilet Summit to find ways to provide toilets for everyone by 2025.
The summit’s goal is to introduce toilets for everyone
An estimated 2.6 billion people have no access …
Continue reading India to Host World Toilet SummitTill the year 2001 there was a lot of consumer dissatisfaction with 1.6 gallon per flush toilets. The manufactures had to design and build them to meet a government water conservation deadline and in many cases simply didn’t produce a good flushing 1.6 gpf toilet initially. They blamed the Congress. The consumer blamed the manufacturer …
Continue reading Do you have a recommendation on low flush toilets?courtesy of Times Argus – by Mark Albury
“Another exciting event to hit the sporting scene is toilet tossing.
During last year’s annual Blue Tip Festival in Toledo, Ohio, the Kohler Company held a contest where participants hurled 45-pound ‘Bathroom Thrones’ through the air.
The winning toss received a complementary toilet from the company.
If …
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