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Reverse Caption Contest: Wastewater Overflow!

March 27, 2010
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Not the usual “write a caption for this photo! Instead, let’s find a photo for this caption! I saw this headline yesterday on Water Technology Online and was immediately driven [...]

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Friday 5 UK Edition: Good Stuff You Missed This Week

March 19, 2010

ONE: eBay Water Item of the Week: A working water system…just perfect for tiny suburbia! This is a 1960s vintage toy sink, made by Casdon in the UK. Seller notes [...]

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Wild Recycling: Flush Away Cancer

March 18, 2010
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I’m always on the lookout for new ideas on how to recycle old toilets (like this and this) and “Flush Away Cancer” demonstrates wild and wonderful out-of-the-bowl thinking on creative loo [...]

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Headlines that Make Me Say, “Huh?”

March 16, 2010
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South Haven officials, please get in touch. I believe I can help you unravel this perplexing mystery. Which begs the question: are there environmental problems in heaven? Lane County, how [...]

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Austin, Beware of the Blob

March 11, 2010

Austin Water Utility demonstrates that slimy, greasy, fatty subject matter can really get the creative juices flowing!  “Stop the Grease Blob” sounds like a band playing at Austin’s SXSW, but is [...]

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Flush with the Success of Twitter

March 8, 2010

Wow, Twitter is overloaded with crap! Seriously! One resourceful, twitter-hating hacker has conceived and built a toilet that tweets with every flush! (We previously blogged on a tweeting water meter [...]

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Art Lovers: Urine for An Unusual Sight

January 27, 2010

Art you can use…if you dare! The most interesting thing about this 2005 installation is that it was a fully functional facility, “open to both sexes.” Thanks to Brian Banks for [...]

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Vols Fan Wants to Give Kiffin Some Crap. Literally.

January 20, 2010

After just one season as head football coach at the University of Tennessee, the not-well-loved Lane Kiffin cut town for California to become the new head coach of the USC [...]

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Goon Idea for Canadian Toilet Reuse!

January 14, 2010

(Note: that’s not a typo!) A tweet this week from World Toilet Day (@worldtoiletday) sought some group-think ideas on toilet reuse. Not toilet-to-tap recycled water, but actual toilets! And yes, [...]

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Eschew the Fat: How Gross is This?

January 13, 2010

How did I miss this Halloween treat? Scottish Water advises folks to “Be afraid, be very afraid” as they take us deep into the sewer to observe with our own [...]

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