Keesler Welch
1/26/2012

Why Portland's Public Toilets Succeeded Where Others Failed

1/10/2012

‎WaterAid ranked #1 (out of 106) for best non-profit working in water, sanitation and hygiene that's making a global impact in the field!

12/31/2011

"Innovations to Expand Sanitation as a Business." Throughout the world, local businesses have not entered this market. [Read more]

8/07/2011

lisabiagiotti:

The World’s Toilet Crisis trailer

7/10/2011

Donor countries have reduced aid for water and sanitation projects which are seen as "unsexy" - schools and hospitals [with or without clean water and toilets] are seen as more "sexy" to the donor community.

4/18/2011
A public restroom on the side of the road, overlooking a fjord in rural Norway.  Designed by Canadian-born, Norway-based architect Todd Saunders.

A public restroom on the side of the road, overlooking a fjord in rural Norway.  Designed by Canadian-born, Norway-based architect Todd Saunders.

4/12/2011
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

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)

1/18/2011
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.

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.

12/16/2010

People-powered Poo Pump: may hold the answer to cheap and efficient sewage removal in some of the world's poorest slums

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