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...flush or not to flush. That was the question that designers and ecologists were asking each other this week as hundreds of people - who spend a lot of time thinking about these things - convened for the annual World Toilet Summit and Expo in Macau...
...Smoke and Mirrors: An Experience of China, are disappointingly familiar (denunciations of the destruction of old Beijing, lamentations over the supposedly materialistic nature of Chinese college students), but these are worth thumbing through for the sharp comparisons Aiyar makes between China and her own country. Interviews with Beijing's toilet cleaners prompt her to ponder their Indian counterparts. The former harbor entrepreneurial dreams and say they prefer toilets to farmwork; the latter endure a lifelong stigma as "untouchables." In China, Aiyar observes, the word servant "described a job that someone did rather than defining the essence of who they were...
...mummy. The free toilet paper in your House’s Super’s office was made for this. And wiping asses...
...Over the course of last year, the University already took drastic steps to regulate students’ daily water usage by installing environmentally-friendly showerheads and toilets in dormitories. A helpful illustration adjacent to the toilet neatly summarizes the features of the new “dual-flush” technology—a more sophisticated, and more hygienic, version of an old scatological rhyme that recommends to “let it mellow...
...Rather than sorting through our trash bins, rationing out Solo cups at dorm-room parties, only sparingly pushing down—instead of up—on the “dual-flush” toilet handle, and following other environmental advice that is an affront to human dignity and common sense, we can simply be more thoughtful, considerate, and conservative in our daily habits...