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Celebrate World Toilet Day 2021!
It is the most wonderful time of the year! November 19th is World Toilet Day, and we hope you'll celebrate - either with us or others....

Samiya Coney
Nov 1, 20212 min read
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What is Toilet Tourism?
At FLUSH, we use the term “toilet tourism” a lot when we find fascinating toilets on our travels. So we thought it would be worthwhile to...
Kimberly Worsham
Oct 25, 20213 min read
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New Security Beat
FLUSH's intern and co-author Georgia Hales led the writing of a guest blog post about our recently published research on leadership...

Media Posts
Oct 8, 20211 min read
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Loo Book Club Review: Phosphorus
Last Thursday, we hosted a book club conversation with friends at The POOP Project and Rich Earth Institute about Jim Elser, Phil...
Kimberly Worsham
Oct 1, 20214 min read
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Why Sanitation Matters: Disease Edition
When thinking about diseases, infections, and viruses, we as humans often think of the worst pandemics in human history, like the Black...

Ryan Jeffrey
Sep 23, 20217 min read
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Mental Floss (2)
Mental Floss quoted our Founder about the history of toilets in a great article about 20 Inventions that Changed the World . Check out...

Media Posts
Sep 22, 20211 min read
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The Farm SoHo
FLUSH's co-working space in NYC - The Farm SoHo - recently wrote about us in a Q&A blog post on their website! Check out the fun story here.

Media Posts
Sep 15, 20211 min read
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5 French Toilet Highlights
As you saw in the previous blog post, FLUSH's Kim Worsham recently was in France on holiday! She spent time in France and the Dordogne...
Kimberly Worsham
Sep 12, 20212 min read
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A Tour of Jean Sans Peur's Toilet
This is the oldest toilet in Paris! FLUSH's Kim Worsham went to France for a holiday recently and found some French toilet history to...
Kimberly Worsham
Sep 11, 20215 min read
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Smash Boom Best
Our founder joined an episode of this kid-oriented podcast to talk about how toilets got to be so awesome, helping toilets in their ...

Media Posts
Sep 9, 20211 min read
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A Tour of Lockwood’s Loos
Checking out the toilets in a mansion for a sanitation advocate and pioneer in the US. The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion team showed FLUSH's...
Kimberly Worsham
Aug 4, 20215 min read
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MOJOK (ID)
Why Are We So Embarrassed When Defecating that We Have To Hide Our Voices? NOTE: THIS POST IS IN INDONESIAN, NOT ENGLISH READ MORE

Media Posts
Jul 31, 20211 min read
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A World Without Sanitation
It can be easy to forget the protections that protect people because they have become so ingrained in our society and have faded to the...

Ryan Jeffrey
Jul 15, 20216 min read
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Checking Out Washington's Toilets
Mount Vernon Estate's Necessaries (left to right): entering the necessary, the multi-seat privy; the backdoor for emptying it out, the...
Kimberly Worsham
Jul 4, 20213 min read
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Loo Book Club Review: Pipe Dreams
Last Thursday, we hosted with friends at The POOP Project and Rich Earth Institute a book club conversation about Chelsea Wald’s new book...
Kimberly Worsham
Jun 14, 20215 min read
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Water Youth Parliament
In March 2021, we participated in the Water Youth Parliament 's panel about low-tech sanitation solutions in the Americas! Thanks to...

Media Posts
Jun 4, 20211 min read
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Loo Book Club Review: Origin of Feces
Last Thursday, we hosted with friends at The POOP Project and Rich Earth Institute a book club conversation about David Waltner-Toews'...
Kimberly Worsham
Apr 20, 20214 min read
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Content Testing at UConn
FLUSH ran a 5-week course on toilets and it went well! FLUSH worked with the University of Connecticut's OSHER Program over winter on...
Kimberly Worsham
Mar 28, 20212 min read
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Loo Book Club Review: Waste
A review of our discussion about Waste by Catherine Coleman Flowers. Last Thursday, we hosted alongside friends at The POOP Project and...
Kimberly Worsham
Mar 9, 20214 min read
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Sanitation & Data Webinar
FLUSH participated in a great panel about the importance of connecting sanitation and data for impactful programs. The sanitation and...
Kimberly Worsham
Feb 9, 20212 min read
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Sanitation Workers at Risk: A Journey into Paris Sewers
Claire Benveniste is a sanitation specialist and manages a french blog about sanitation called La Fée Cale. This blog post originally...

Claire Benveniste
Feb 3, 20213 min read
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Mixing Art & Environmental Science
One apprentice alumna shares her reflections on using her art skills to share her passion for the environment. About Our Apprentice...

Mallory Furlong
Feb 1, 20214 min read
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Purpose, Inc.
Our founder joined an episode of this professional podcast to talk about sanitation and equity - in US and internationally. Listen to the...

Media Posts
Dec 22, 20201 min read
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All About Flush Away 2020
Congratulations to Team PhaecesreuseD on Twitter for winning the Grand Prize! From December 27 to 31, 2020, FLUSH, The Loo Tours, and The...
Kimberly Worsham
Dec 5, 20203 min read
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