A three-year-old starts having accidents at home after a bad experience with an automatic flush toilet at a local restaurant. Here's a topic that many moms out there have had to deal with. Even The ...

It’s a common scene: You’re hovering above the toilet in some airport or rest stop, when, mid-stream, the toilet beneath you starts flushing. By the time you’ve finished relieving yourself, the ...

One of the darker moments of my parenting career saw me holding a terrified three-year-old on a toilet that repeatedly automatically flushed at a volume that is only appropriate for the whooshing ...

“It is estimated that toilets are by far the main source of water use in the home, accounting for almost 30 percent of residential indoor water use,” states the Virginia Cooperative Extension. In an ...

Most times when I use an automatic-flush toilet in a commercial building, it flushes two to three times. Do automatic-flush toilets waste or save water? – Ed Zajac, Orangevale Your experience is ...

Many suggestions have been put forward following the announcement of the pending increase in water prices (“Provide raw water for non-drinking purposes” and “Saving water: Move beyond price to focus ...

Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for Slate’s free daily podcast on iTunes. After a stint of telecommuting, I recently returned to working in a large downtown building. My ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." There’s a reason why smart toilets and bidets are so widespread in certain regions of the world: Not only ...

Here's a topic that many moms out there have had to deal with. Even The New York Times took up the matter a few years ago in a story headlined "For Children, a Scary World Out There (in There, Too).".