"And it took 30 seconds after watching this video." Man shares simple hack to fix common toilet flushing issue: 'I've been ...

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Of all the things we knowingly or unwittingly take for granted, having a safe and reliable sanitation system is probably not one of them. Yet according to the World Health Organization, some 3.4 ...

A smart toilet design introduced in rural Cambodia was supposed to change lives—keeping families safe and protecting the ...

Finally! A microbiologist settles the debate on whether you need to keep the toilet lid down when you're not on the pot.

You have to be comfortable with a certain amount of uncertainty when stepping into a public restroom. Even if the cleaning staff is diligent in its duties, there’s no guarantee that someone who’s used ...

Public toilets are a "microbial soup" and there are things you should be doing to protect yourself — including not taking out ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at the auction.

We've heard of off-grid toilets that macerate, compost, incinerate and electro-wrap. We even stumbled on one that ...

With lack of proper sanitation, there's an increased risk of infectious diseases like UTIs, diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid, and ...

In a world where convenience often trumps common sense, the toilet has somehow become the unsuspecting hero—or rather, victim—of our trashy tendencies. Despite plumbing systems being explicitly ...