For 2.6 billion people, a better toilet would mean a better life, with fewer water-borne diseases like dysentery and cholera, which affect millions annually. To combat this problem, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has divided $3 million (US) among eight institutions around the world, to be spent on rethinking the toilet for the developing [...]

Photo by JesseK-G from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. If you’re doing the duck walk with a bladder at code red, it will be best to look for a most public place to do your private business. That’s where Toronto is being told to install most of its ballyhooed new public poopers in order to flush-out [...]