Topic: Jack Sim

This is my second Most of the modern world takes the convenience of clean,working toilets for granted. Sim maintains, ?Hundreds of millions of people in ruralareas and slums around the world still flush sewage directly into rivers. Sim started his global ...

Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes?

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: "People demand a TV, not a toilet, because it is not aspirational or charismatic," said Sim, who ...

Make toilets cool to fix sanitation woes, expert says

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, has a theory about why governments and people are so reluctant to talk about hygiene: "People demand a TV, not a toilet, because it is not aspirational or charismatic," said Sim, who ...

Waste Opportunity

While the Western world forgets its waste with a flush, 2.6 billion people don't even have toilets. On November 4, 2008, the night Americans voted for "change," it was already the morning of November 5 at the World Toilet Summit ...

World Toilet Day no laughing matter, group says

A Singapore-based non-profit organisation proclaimed World Toilet Day on Wednesday, but said it was no laughing matter.The World Toilet Organisation, founded in 2001, aims to make sanitation a key global issue. "November 19th is World Toilet Day, a day on which ...
So-called potty parity for men's and women's restrooms will be on the agenda at the eighth annual World Toilet Summit and Expo set to commence in Macau today. The summit, organized by the World Toilet Organization (WTO) among others, will ...
Promising 'Toilet Revolution,' New Worldwide Toilet Organization Launches in South KoreaThe World Toilet Association kicked off its inaugural conference Thursday, hoping to spark a sanitation revolution that will save lives through better hygiene and break taboos about what happens behind closed bathroom ...