courtesy of Supply House Times magazine, August 1999
by Pat Lenius
Residential customers in Hollywood and southwest Los Angeles were offered the opportunity to have free ultra-low-flush toilets delivered at no cost to their homes in August.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is spearheading this water conservation effort with help from community …
Continue reading Los Angeles offers free delivery of low-flow toilets to homesThe country has an enduring fascination with the toilet–replete with cutting-edge technology, Web sites, symposiums and museums. The enthusiasm is largely lost on foreigners.
By Mark Magnier, L.A. Times – 1999
KOKURA, Japan–It’s got wings, it’s sensitive, it’s smart. It cares, it knows when you’re around, it bleats when you arrive. Ignore it and you …
Continue reading Japan Is Flush With Obsessioncourtesy of Time Magazine, May 25, 1998
FOR DEVELOPING NATIONS IN THE info age, it’s a question of priorities: Do you want a working toilet or do you want the World Wide Web? Many seem to be choosing the Web. Access to adequate sanitation facilities in Latin America and Asia is falling while Web use …
Continue reading Toilets Take the Back Seat in the Third Worldcourtesy of Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1998
Ann Landers, Advice Column
Dear Ann: This is in response to “Louisville,” who joined the national debate about whether the toilet seat should be left up or down. In my house, you put the lid down. This prevents the dog from drinking out of it, klutzes like me from dropping …
Continue reading UP DOWN – The GREAT Toilet Seat Debate
courtesy of The Seattle Times, 10/8/97
by FRANK GREVE / Knight-Ridder Newspapers
DELAWARE WATER GAP, Pa. – There’s a remarkable new building in a federal park in Pennsylvania: a two-hole outhouse, without running water, that cost the National Park Service at least $333,000.
It’s nestled amid evergreens, with a gabled slate roof, cottage-style porches, and …
Continue reading The Opulent OuthouseReproduced with permission from Fine Homebuilding magazine – Oct./Nov. 1997
Steve Culpepper
A head-to-head comparison for our readers with nothing to go on.
At first the toilets in our house were merely sluggish. Then they got slower and slower until they didn’t flush at all. But the toilets weren’t clogged. Something was in the sewer …
Continue reading Choosing a Toiletcourtesy of The Washington Post, May 15, 1997
By Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post Foreign Service
An American diplomat was at a dinner party in a Japanese home when he excused himself to go to the bathroom. He did his business, stood up and realized he didn’t have a clue about how to …
Continue reading But Do They Flush? Japan’s High-Tech Toilets Do Nearly Everything, Even Redden Faces
courtesy of Time Magazine, November 11, 1996
The latest industry to be targeted by Japan is toilets, and the American king of porcelain is sitting uneasily on its throne. TOTO, world leader in plumbing and toilets with $5 billion in sales, says Kohler is playing dirty. TOTO says the Wisconsin-based company (estimated sales: $1.8 billion) …
Continue reading TOTO vs. Kohler: Attack of the Japanese Toiletscourtesy of The Seattle Times, 7/10/96
Sam Bren sits on one of many toilets stored in Honolulu. Bren is working with an environmental group to get the Honolulu City council to allow parts of the commodes to become artificial reefs. A new law requiring efficient toilets will make about 100,000 obsolete. © Associated Press…
Continue reading Gone to Potcourtesty of Time Magazine, July 1, 1996
By Christine Gorman.
Reported by Julie Grace/Chicago and Christine Sadlowski/New York
The homeowner, (we’ll call him Bob) was a good, law-abiding citizen. But he had a big mess on his hands or rather, all over his floor. According to federal regulations that …
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