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Passengers win two toilet availability victories today In a singular move to accommodate transit riders, the Washington DC area Metro announced today that there will be restrooms at every station on the new Silver line. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/20/AR2009122002030.html The American Restroom Association has long advocated for toilet availability for the capital’s extensive light rail system...
We’re happy to see that all presentations from the World Toilet Summit on December 2-4 are now on line. Here they are for Day 1, Day 2 (includes our PHLUSH presentations), and Day 3. Since returning from Singapore, we’ve had to tackle the backload of work here and our reporting on the Summit has...
What is ecosan? According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosan Ecological sanitation, also known as ecosan or eco-san, is a sanitation process that uses human of blackwater and sometimes immediately eliminates fecal pathogens from any still present wastewater (urine) at the source. The objectives are to offer economically and ecologically sustainable and culturally acceptable systems that aim...
Financing and Marketing Sanitation in Developing Nations Meeting Demand. Jon Lane of the Geneva-based Water Supply and Sanitation Coordinating Council introduced the World Sanitation Financing Facility. Under the leadership of Arthur Wood, people in sanitation, social innovation, finance, commerce and the law are collaborating to make sanitation an economic activity. WSFF is...
Experts agree that sanitation brings high ROI. So why isn’t there more investment? Experts at the World Toilet Summit in Singapore this week all agreed that sanitation pays off. The World Health Organisation alone has shown time and time again that a single dollar’s investment in sanitation brings anywhere from $3 to $34 return...
Schools worldwide are getting kids to talk toilets. Although the Summit didn’t focus on educating kids about sanitation and toilet use in their schools, the importance programs in schools was salient. It seems to be something everyone is doing. And the messages flow from the school to home and community. Tan Puay Hoon...
Although a small meeting of about about 500 participants, the World Toilet Summit is multi layered and brings together people fighting for safe, clean restrooms in industrialized cities as well scientists doing the serious thinking about the impending global sanitation crisis. All are unified in the belief that “sanitation is dignity”. On the first...
In related news, PHLUSH will be serving with Clara Greed on a technical advisory committee trying to establish the Global Guideline for toilet design. The committee is chaired by code officials from South Africa and Australia and coordinated by Jay Peters of the International Code Council. PHLUSH will be looking especially at CPTED....
While there was little coverage of the role of public restrooms in urban design at the Summit, the final session honored Clara Greed Greed, who was not present due to a family illness, received a WTO Hall of Fame Award. Greed, Professor of Inclusive Urban Planning http://www.bne.uwe.ac.uk/staff/staffDetails.asp?StaffID=c-greed at the University of the West of...
Here in one of the cleanest cities of the world, PHLUSH Co-Founder Barbara Lescher presented Public Restroom Design for 21st Century US Cities: The PHLUSH Principles. These design principles were passed by the Old Town Chinatown Neighborhood Association in June 2008 after extensive discussion in the community and by the neighborhood’s the Visions Committee....
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