The Growing Problem That Should Bring Toilets From Taboo to Top of Mind
While the Western world forgets its waste with a flush, 2.6 billion people don’t even have toilets. A writer ventures to the World Toilet Summit in search of sanitation’s future.
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This story was originally published in Dwell’s June 2009 issue.
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Virginia Gardiner
Our "Process" queen Virginia Gardiner currently lives in London, where she is finishing up a master's degree in industrial design engineering. "It has been fun but also tiring," she reports.
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