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Today is #WorldToiletDay #WorldToiletDay2020

More than a billion (that's 1,000,000,000) people defecate in the open because they lack the dignity of a toilet.

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As usual, I did NOT have time to write a blog post about it, but I did in previous years.
World Toilet Day and the global politics of sanitation raulpacheco.org/2015/11/world-…

#WorldToiletDay #WorldToiletDay2020
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Do we “Gotta Keep the Devil Way Down in the Hole,” as Tom Waits sings?
Most westerners assume our system of using 1.6 gallons of drinking water to flush our shit and piss is the the best & most natural system of waste removal. Is it, though? #Discard2020 @DiscardStudies 1/10
1850s U.S. had a choice regarding dry or wet toilets. And that choice still governs the way we shit today and—more importantly perhaps—the way we think about our shit. Oddly enough, Christianity played a significant role in choosing wet toilets. #Discard2020 2/10
As plumbing and water came to most 19th C U.S. cities, toilets as we know them could be put inside the home. Convenient, right? But this change didn’t happen without considerable anxiety. 1st, people believed sickness was spread through miasmas. #Discard2020 3/10
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