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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 …

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courtesty 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 …

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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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