Doulaye Kone, interim director of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, shows off a high-tech toilet featured in the “A Better Way to Go” exhibit.

Wilhelmson then started to think of the bag–which he considers a sort of mobile toilet, something akin to what a cell phone is to a landline. A decade later, Peepoople produces 80,000 bags a day.

In honor of World Toilet Day on November 19, designated by the United Nations to raise awareness for 2.5 billion people who do not have access to sanitation and toilets, here's a look at some ...

Sanitary bins are to be installed at toilets in a seaside town following a row over a lack of waste disposal facilities. Photographer and artist Becci Hey, 58, has been installing sanitary bins in ...

The U.N. declared the day in 2013 to promote public health and "raise awareness about the lack of access to safe sanitation and toilets for billions of people worldwide." ...

The Housing Finance Bank’s Water Supply and Sanitation Solution is a practical tool designed to address one of Uganda’s most persistent development challenges by giving individuals and communities the ...

Our goal was to establish how living in regions vulnerable to the effects of climate change affects how well sanitary toilets function, and the impact that has on households’ sanitation ...

So toilets are serious business. When the U.N. set its "millennial goals" back in 2000, one of them was: "access to proper sanitation, including toilets or latrines" by the year 2015. We didn't ...

The United Nations estimates that 4.2 billion people — more than half of the world's population — live without any access to safely managed sanitation. No septic systems. No waste treatment ...

Today we celebrate World Toilet Day to promote awareness about the global sanitation crisis. Toilets have been around for more than 5,000 years, but many people around the world still do not have one.

6. Flush toilets aren’t the only kind of toilet. In rural areas and parts of the world without sanitation infrastructure, where flush toilets aren’t practical, many people use dry toilets.

In India, where Bruce spent the most time, there was a paradox between governmental action and inaction. The country has promised 100 million toilets to its residents by 2019. But promising a ...