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5 Slick, Contemporary Ways to Save Space and Water in a Small Bathroom

9:52 am in bathroom, bathrooms, Design & Architecture, lifeedited, water conversation by TreeHugger

Photo of the W+W combined sink and toilet Poo with a view - can you even find the toilet? Photo credit: Roca. Tucking in all the necessary components into a tiny bathroom is a challenge. Even more so when you'd like it to look good. Because of size constraints, the bathroom in the 420-square-foot New York apartment TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is renovating as part of the LifeEdited project needs to fulfill its purposes in a streamlined manner. But it also needs to be appealing. In keeping with that mission, Graham has opted to do away with the original ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Gates Foundation Throwing $42 Million Into The Toilet

1:45 pm in bathroom, bathrooms, bill gates, composting toilets by TreeHugger

amazonian toilets 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 Global Development Program says:
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

P-Tree, A Panacea For Public Peeing Problems (For Men, Anyways)

12:01 pm in bathroom, bathrooms, designers, netherlands by TreeHugger

p-tree public pee problem photo Image credit AANDEBOOM We are perhaps a bit preoccupied with pee at TreeHugger. But it is valuable stuff that we just flush away, or worse, create the problem of public peeing. Rogier Martens and Sam van Veluw of AANDEBOOM have addressed the problem with the P-Tree, and demonstrated it at a recent rock festival. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Ask Pablo: Will a "Water-Saving" Hot Water Recirculation Pump Really Save Me Money?

11:35 am in bathrooms, energy, greenwashing, heating, Science & Technology, water conservation by TreeHugger

hot water faucet image Image credit: Shaylor, used under Creative Commons license. Dear Pablo: I am considering getting a hot water recirculation pump. They claim to save a lot of water and I am wondering if this makes up for their energy use. Should I get a hot water recirculation pump? Hot water recirculation pumps are a convenient way to ensure that you have im...Read the full story on TreeHugger