Delhi boasts of having the first ‘toilet museum’ of the world, Sulabh International Toilet Museum. The museum gives a chronology of developments relating to technology, toilet-related social customs, toilet etiquette’s and sanitary conditions of various eras. It also includes an extensive display of privies, chamber pots, toilet furniture, bidets and water closets in use from 1145 AD to the modern times.
Bollywood actress, Vidya Balan, becomes India’s sanitation brand ambassador. Union Minister of Rural Development Jairam Ramesh hopes that Balan can help turn his campaign to end open defecation into a national obsession. The Indian government’s ambition is to achieve total rural sanitation coverage by 2017.
A public restroom on the side of the road, overlooking a fjord in rural Norway. Designed by Canadian-born, Norway-based architect Todd Saunders.
Here Is a Dress Made Out of 520 Toilet
Seat Covers
Toletta, a Canadian company that manufactures “luxury paper toilet seat covers” that you can carry in your purse for when you encounter a particularly terrifying public toilet, is drumming up press with a dress they commissioned designer Laura Dreger to make using only Tolettas. 520 toilet seat covers and 100 hours later, she came up with this dress
(Source: chrisieology)
Forty-two years ago on the historic day of April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while he was in Memphis supporting none other but African American sanitation workers. By making sanitation workers the very center of his attention, just prior to his assassination, it should make a statement on the importance of sanitation for society as a whole.
Globally, diarrhoeal dehydration claims the lives of nearly 2 million children every year and has killed more children in the last 10 years than all the people lost to armed conflict since the Second World War (UNICEF 2000).
Food for thought.
