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History and Design of the Bathroom Part 7: Putting A Price on Poop and Pee
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I took some serious abuse in comments when I wrote Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet, questioning whether we needed a high-tech toilet solution. Commenters wrote: "This article is a disgrace and a sham." Niels Peter Flint, who I respect and have written about here, writes "The problems around human waste are ENORMOUS and here you just ridicule a very serious and honest approach to come with NEW & INNOVATIVE solutions."
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When I asked 
Poo with a view - can you even find the toilet? Photo credit: 
Image credit Lloyd Alter: Broken Toilets in the Amazon
Bill and Melinda are making a big investment in " a strategy to help bring safe, clean sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world." The foundation notes that a billion people have to shit in the open, and billions more lack a safe, reliable toilet or latrine. Sylvia Mathews Burwell of the
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Onna yu ("Bathhouse Women") by Torii Kiyonaga
Siegfried Giedion, in Mechanization Takes Command, writes:
Images credit Alexander Kira, the Bathroom Book
Have a look at your sink after you brush your teeth or shave. There is stuff all over it that you have to clean up. You can't wash your hair in it. Alexander Kira of Cornell University looked at the bathroom sink, and toilet and tub, in the early sixties and was appalled. He wrote:
In 1940, Buckminster Fuller receieved 
