More than 3 000 families in Silver Town, Khayelitsha, have been forced to either use filthy, damaged toilets or relieve themselves in a field.

[GroundUp] Over 3,000 families in Silver Town, Khayelitsha, have been forced to either use filthy, damaged toilets or relieve themselves in a field. Blowy, Sikalekhekhe and Marikana informal settlements have about 340 toilets, but they have not been serviced since 4 October, when the previous cleaners' contracts expired.

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Billie Nicholls, who has ulcerative colitis, says some people don't have the luxury of waiting.

From developers Cannibal Interactive, the creators of Purgatory Dungeoneer, springs forth a new labyrinth game. This one is called Labyrinth of Wild Abyss: LayeRedux and it has labyrinths. Except the labyrinths don't just have single paths to their centres, but tube monsters covered in eyes who'll stalk you slowly and methodically as you meander. Personally, it's not the vibe I'm after when I sit down in the evening and I think, "I would like to play a video game that makes me feel somewhat pleasant". But hey, it might be for you.

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As many as 30 governemnt schools have not drinking water facility; all schools in Aspirational District Y.S.R. Kadapa have drinking water supply, says data.

The National Park Service (NPS) recently awarded a construction contract to SKY Engineering and Construction, Inc. of Phoenix, Ariz., for the renovation of the Desert View restroom and the replacement of existing chemical toilets with new concrete vault toilet buildings at four locations along Grand Canyon National Park’s Desert View Drive. Locations include: South Kaibab Trailhead, Grandview Overlook and Trailhead, Buggeln Hill Picnic Area, and Tusayan Museum. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/desert-view-restroom-renovation-and-east-rim-drive-toilets-project-to-begin-at-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

What was meant to be a Year 12 student's individual health project has turned into a community mission transforming the school's "ugly" toilets into a positive place for girls having a rough day.

PotterCast is back with an all new episode this Halloween! We talk about some of the new Deathly Hallows TV spots and just what of DH Part 1 we HAVEN'T seen yet anyhow! More news including the release of the DH soundtrack and extended editions of the 3rd and 4th Potter film.

Episode 228 — Down the Toilets

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Visit the-leaky-cauldron.org for the latest and greatest from Harry Potter's Wizard World.

AIRCRAFT engineers are on hand to do everything from small bits of daily maintenance at the end of a flight, to fixing major issues to avoid a fatal emergency. However, they also have the task of unclogging toilets - discovering some very bizarre items along the way.

AIRCRAFT engineers are on hand to do everything from small bits of daily maintenance at the end of a flight, to fixing major issues to avoid a fatal emergency. However, they also have the task of unclogging toilets - discovering some very bizarre items along the way.

ADB, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is providing more sanitary water-tight pit latrines for 330 homes in Mongolia's Arvaikheer city.

Composting toilets have a lot of benefits. But can they really help save hippos?

Scientists are concerned about how airports are conducive to the spread of disease.

With a visit to a festival and a brown lawn.

While AirBnB allows people to rent out lodging, from the smallest room to the biggest Irish castle, AirPnP has a smaller, though not less useful, ambition.

Some time ago I posted on the efforts of Joe Jenkins and GiveLove.org to promote humanure composting toilets in Haiti. But this was nothing new. In fact, one of the non-profit partners behind that

We were at the Cottage Life Show in Toronto this weekend, but soon there might be a whole spinoff, "Compost Toilet Life Show" , there were so many new products in the alternative toilet world. One that surprised us was the Finnish Biolan- we are used to

As John Laumer noted earlier, there is a lot of useful stuff in pee, but we dilute it with gallons of water, send it down big pipes mixed with everything else, and suddenly we have monstrous networks of waste piping, sewage treatment plants and water

An international team of researchers has created a new type of cement that uses these discarded items that is just as strong, but produces far less emissions.

Billions of gallons of water may be wasted because of this.

TreeHugger isn't the only place to sing the virtues of the modern composting toilet. But Fox News? Really?

Bill Gates take note: It's all in here and It is surprising how little has changed

A look at what has changed, and how much has actually stayed the same.

It's about time that we stopped wasting drinking water to flush away our waste; Allison Bailes did it and isn't complaining.

Put your poop to work; it's fuel for a biological furnace.

Another look at what's out there in the world of composting and other alternative toilets

Was it design, or was it our resistance to change? What made the NoMix a NoGo?

It's becoming easier to do so as the rules change and the toilets get better.

The big Glastonbury music festival is getting new composting loos

If you gotta go, you should have a clean private environmentally friendly place to go.

Who says loos have to be boring and utilitarian?

Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide.

How did a piece of fabric become a porcelain bowl?

There are many lessons about health and hygiene to be learned from the great French architect

iKlebsiella pneumoniae/i carbapenemase (KPC) is commonly found in sinks located near patients toilets in hospital rooms. These sinks act as reservoirs

Producers overwhelmed as supply chain disruption fuels fears of shortages

Oxfordshire County Council introduced the advice for transgender pupils last year, saying they should be able to use the toilets of their identified gender. The council has withdrawn the advice.

Kate Moss proved to be Barbra Streisand's biggest fan as she watched her take to the stage at the British Summer Time Hyde Park show on Sunday.

Chris Sutton recounts to Kieran Gill the day he became public enemy No 1 in north London, while Martin Keown explains how it inadvertently helped Arsenal clinch the Double the following season.

Oxfordshire County Council introduced the advice for transgender pupils last year, saying they should be able to use the toilets of their identified gender. The council has withdrawn the advice.

New biography AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Lynda Lopez, gives an inside look of AOC's rise to Congress, out June 2.

Matthew Stupples, 42, lived on-site at Wimbledon Park Primary School in south west London where he had worked as a caretaker and handyman for nearly 15 years.

Chris Sutton recounts to Kieran Gill the day he became public enemy No 1 in north London, while Martin Keown explains how it inadvertently helped Arsenal clinch the Double the following season.

Total Sanitation Campaign, MGNREGS and other government schemes are unheard of among villagers at Dinesh Nagar, Assam who live with a perennial lack of food, pure water, and health amenities. Nilotpal Bhattacharjee wonders if they will ever find deliverance from despair.

'The fact that I will be away from my son is scaring me. I don't know how I will manage without him.'

I re-learned an old design lesson from the humble toilet flusher. As new features are added to existing technologies, careful design is required to make their usage clear.