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  2. Committee to End Pay Toilets in America - Wikipedia

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    The group also sponsored the Thomas Crapper Memorial Award, which was given to "the person who has made an outstanding contribution to the cause of CEPTIA and free toilets." [1] In 1973, Chicago became the first American city to act when the city council voted 37–8 in support of a ban on pay toilets in that city. According to at least one ...

  3. Pay toilet - Wikipedia

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    A pay toilet is a public toilet that requires the user to pay. It may be street furniture or be inside a building, e.g. a shopping mall, department store, or railway station. The reason for charging money is usually for the maintenance of the equipment. Paying to use a toilet can be traced back almost 2000 years, to the first century BCE.

  4. Paul Harris (Rotary) - Wikipedia

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    When Harris was elected as third president of the Chicago Rotary Club in 1907, the club initiated its first public service project, the construction of public toilets in Chicago. This step transformed Rotary into the world's first Service Club. This action was facilitated by the formation of the Executive Committee (now Ways and Means Committee).

  5. Why Public Bathrooms Are So Rare in America - AOL

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    The U.S. has eight public toilets per 100,000 people. Public toilets were a fact of life in the U.S. and elsewhere for centuries — at least as far back as the Roman Empire. As leaders began to ...

  6. Public toilets that freeze up in cold is latest example of ...

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    Letters: The U.S. Air Force spending $10,000 on toilet seat covers has nothing on clueless Columbus leaders, whose public toilets freeze in the cold. ... Jan 2, 2024; Columbus, Ohio, USA; The city ...

  7. Potty parity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Despite the passage of legislation, equitable access to public toilets remains a problem for women in the United States. [2] No federal legislation relates to provision of facilities for women; [3] however, Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations stipulate "toilet rooms separate for each sex" unless unisex toilets are provided ...

  8. History of water supply and sanitation - Wikipedia

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    The history of water supply and sanitation is one of a logistical challenge to provide clean water and sanitation systems since the dawn of civilization. Where water resources, infrastructure or sanitation systems were insufficient, diseases spread and people fell sick or died prematurely. Astronaut Jack Lousma taking a shower in space, 1974

  9. Public toilet - Wikipedia

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    Accessible female and male public washrooms on the Boise River Greenbelt in Idaho, US, featuring public art A public toilet at a park in Viiskulma, Helsinki, Finland. A public toilet, restroom, bathroom or washroom is a room or small building with toilets (or urinals) and sinks for use by the general public.