A quick look at some of the things that make your cities work (or not)
Urban Sanitation Edition:
Public urinal in China
Number of people worldwide defecating in public : 1.1 billion
World population lacking access to basic sanitation: 2.6 billion
Average toilet usage per day per person: 6 times
Time spent on the toilet in a lifetime: 3 years
Number of Indians with access to toilets: 366 million
Number of Indians with access to cell phones: 545 million
Annual cost due to lack of hygiene in India: $54 billion
Diarrhea related deaths per annum: 450,000
Cleanliness contest – ATM vs. public toilet: Winner – public toilet
Nigeria’s population in 1999: 110 million
Number of public toilets in Nigeria in 1999: 500
Dignified mobile toilets: Answering the call of nature
Average use per day: 100 per stall
Their slogan: S**t business is serious business
WTO: World Toilet Organization
Discovering the world of toilets: Toilets of the world
World’s most beautiful toilet: Kawakawa, New Zealand
Most expensive toilet on planet earth: Hang Sung Toilet
Most expensive beyond planet earth: International Space Station
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“A bidet toilet is installed in 72% of Japanese households! (Japan: 128 million inhabitants) These toilets include many advanced features rarely seen outside of Asia. The feature set commonly found on washlets are anus washing, bidet washing, seat warming, and deodorization.”
Environmentally friendly, they don’t need toilet paper !
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan