How are you spending World Toilet Day?

[struggle4progress]

... Haiti's cholera outbreak demonstrates how important proper sanitation is. More than 1,100 people have died, and thousands more are infected with the illness, which is spread by contact with fecal material.

Diarrheal diseases kill more children than malaria and five times as many children in the developing world as HIV/AIDS, according to UNICEF. Diarrhea stunts growth and forces children to miss school and adults to miss work, the agency adds.

The nonprofit World Toilet Organization is calling for improved water safety, more public toilets, better cleaning and maintenance of existing toilets, and acknowledgment of women's needs in public restroom planning.

"Studies show that women take longer to use restrooms than men. If there are three toilets for each gender, though, the women's room will have a far longer line. You've seen it happen in stadiums, theaters, and malls - that's because archaic building codes don't consider women's physiological needs," the group says on its website ...

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/19/how-are-you-spending-world-toilet-day/

[veganlush]

1. I'll be reading....n/t

[TwilightGardener]

2. Flush with happiness.

[rug]

3. In GDP.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. Eating cheese coneys.

[superduperfarleft]

5. Guess I should clean the bathroom. n/t

[DireStrike]

6. Hah! I spent a good portion of it in Flushing.

[pipi_k]

7. Frankly, I was bowled over by the title...

:+

[pipi_k]

8. PS...although to celebrate, I'm giving the Ty-d-bowl Man the day off

He works so hard....

:)

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. With a major plumbing job

No, not a pun.

[we can do it]

10. I Had a Colonoscopy (really!)

[cleanhippie]

11. I'm letting the idea swirl around in my head for a while...

[Bozita]

12. I always tell folks, "I gave at the office."

[Codeine]

13. Current TV's Vanguard series did an amazing documentary

on the toilet crisis, especially how the lack of proper toilet facilities in India plays out. A really enlightening program.

[lightningandsnow]

14. Ironically, my intestines have decided to act up on World Toilet Day.

:rofl:

Honestly, I'm a little annoyed that the World Toilet Organization doesn't include gender-neutral washrooms in their mandate, though. Cisgender women may have to wait longer for the bathroom, but a lot of transgender and gender variant people can't use public washrooms at all for fear of violence and harassment.

[damntexdem]

15. Anywhere I can, with lots of pit stops.

[frylock]

16. i'll be playing some angry birds..

my new fav toilet activity.

[DCKit]

17. I've been gorging on iffy leftovers all day. n/t

[LeftishBrit]

18. It was even celebrated in Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice'

In Chapter 8, 'On entering the drawing-room (Elizabeth) found the whole party at loo'.