Xinhua – China – August 22, 2006
SHENZHEN — The old saying that there’s no accounting for good taste applies to a local restaurant chain here where the decor is all about toilets and the food is supposed to be kind of crappy.
Known for its slogan “dinning on a toilet”, the restaurant is decorated …
Continue reading Toilet restaurants attract trendy young peoplecourtesy of Sci Fi Tech – by Adam Frucci
We’ve already seen a toilet-paper dispenser that doubles as an iPod speaker dock, but that’s not even close to being integrated enough for a Japanese bathroom experience.
Here’s how they do it across the Pacific: a toilet that doubles as an MP3 player.
It comes with …
Continue reading Only in Japan: the music-playing toiletcourtesy of ADNKRONOS International, Mumbai
(AKI) – A person who doesn’t have a toilet at home, can’t have a political career. This is the rule applied in some local administrations in southern India and may soon be applied to Mumbai and the state of Maharashtra. According sources within the state’s administration, of which Mumbai is …
Continue reading India: No Career in Politics Without a Toilet at Homecourtesy of BBC News, Delhi, India – by Ayanjit Sen
Better hygiene must be practiced, says the rural affairs chief.
Village council candidates in India should be allowed to stand for election only if they have a toilet at home, the rural development minister says.
In a letter to all chief ministers, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh …
Taxpayers own million-dollar biffy
Tom Brodbeck, January 20, 2005
City hall wants the $1-million toilet on the dink bridge open to the public — even if it’s in the middle of a swanky, martini-serving restaurant on the footbridge’s 4,000-square-foot plaza. It seems fair. After all, we paid a million bucks for the award-winning toilet. We …
Continue reading It’s a pay-toilet I’ll useSvetlana Vozlinskaya – Pravda (Russia) – Oct. 11, 2003
Toilets pacify and equalize everyone without any exceptions.
The toilet has different names in different countries. It is called a bie zasah gar in Mongolia, it is a bathroom or an outhouse in the US. russian outhouseIn Russia the toilet has a variety of names: it …
Continue reading Peculiarities of National ToiletsSeptember 11, 2003 by Lance Martin – Daily Herald (North Carolina)
ROANOKE RAPIDS – Outdoor toilets are making a comeback, at least during this year’s Relay for Life campaign.
R.J. Myrick, who owns Roanoke Valley Insurance, and Elizabeth Branham, who owns Gotta-Go Port-A-Jons, have teamed up in a unique way to raise funds for the …
Continue reading Outdoor toilets raising money for Relay For Lifeby Marc Morano – June 12, 2003 (CNSNews)
Forget the convenience and sanitation of the flush toilet that industrialized nations have enjoyed for most of the past century.
A growing number of environmentalists are now advocating the expanded use of compost or dry toilets worldwide to combat what they see as an international water crisis.…
Continue reading Flush Toilets Called ‘Environmental Disaster’by Robert Mader – Dec. 2002 – Contractor Magazine
October was the month for clashing toilet test results. First, Consumer Reports revealed its 1.6-gpf test results in an October issue story headlined, Successful Water Savers. Then, on Oct. 28, the National Association of Home Builders Research Center here released its own and quite different toilet …
Continue reading Toilet test results clashby Al Heavens – The Philadelphia Inquirer – Dec. 01, 2002
I realize I’ve already written about low-flow toilets once this year.
In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, low-flow toilets officially crossed the threshold of the U.S. home in 1992, with the enactment of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act.
The act …
Continue reading Water savings over time key to toilet buy