Non-Human Toilets
The "Dog Pot" system, as spotted along a street in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It seems like a good idea. Now if Atlanta would only do something about the huge amount of human urine sprayed everywhere in that city. It's a pungent feature in a city in a hot climate.
The system used in France to direct people to "curb their dog". Not as in "try to keep them from going, thereby guaranteeing that they'll do it right where everyone will step", but as in "in the gutter, next to the curb, where no one steps and it will be washed away."
Again, Atlanta could use this system. For the humans.
This specific picture is from Saumur, along the lower Loire River, but you see it many places.
Rose George's The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters is a fascinating description of sanitation conditions around the world. "2.6 billion people don't have sanitation. [....] Four in ten people have no access to any latrine, toilet, bucket, or box."
In September 2009, Morna Gregory and Sian James published a book titled Toilets of the World. It's pretty much the same theme that you find here — photographs and commentary on other people's plumbing.
| A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used. |
How long have my Toilets of the World pages been around? I'm not exactly sure, although they started in the mid 1990s as a single page on a Purdue University server. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine lets you see what that looked like as far back as January 17, 1999.
My cromwell-intl.com domain appeared in September, 2001, although the Wayback Machine didn't notice its one enormous Toilet of the World page until January 17, 2002. Some time soon after that I split it into categories, and the collection has grown ever since.
If you're not bored yet, you might be interested in (or at least tolerate):
