Toilets
India repeals controversial farm laws after a year of protests
India announces the repeal of three controversial farm laws that have been met with protests for a year. Also, Austria is set to go into lockdown as the government also prepares to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory. And, a new report shows deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is at a 15-year high.
When you gotta go in Sochi… take a friend to the twin toilets
Russian authorities have set up side by side toilets at a Olympic venue in Sochi. Yes, BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg tweeted a picture Wednesday with the caption: “Seeing double in the Gentlemen’s Loo at the Olympic Biathlon Centre.” The picture he snapped is of one stall with two toilets, no divider.
Toilet Tales: Water and Waste
The humble flush toilet is a technological wonder that carries our waste safely away from our homes and workplaces. Yet roughly 2.5 billion people don’t have access to decent sanitation. And even for those who do, the toilet is an imperfect solution that often creates problems of its own. The World’s special five-part series “Toilet Tales: Water and Waste” examines efforts to solve those problems around the world, from China to India to Haiti to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
