The Growing Problem That Should Bring Toilets From Taboo to Top of Mind

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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