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In Eastern Europe, particularly in the former USSR, pay toilets are usually non-automatic and are like usual public toilets except that they have an attendant at the entrance to collect the money from visitors. In the United Kingdom, pay toilets tend to be common at bus and railway stations, but most public toilets are free to use.
The Sanisette contains a toilet behind a door that opens when a button is pressed or, in the case of a pay toilet, a coin inserted into a control panel on the outside of the toilet. A washbasin is provided (the style varies with the model of Sanisette). When a user enters the toilet, the door closes to provide privacy.
Public toilets (or public WC) (Slovak: verejné WC) in Bratislava, Slovakia are managed by the local government, which pays for the water. [1] [2] Bratislava is known for having a very limited number of public restrooms and their appearance has changed little since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Privatization of public toilets is an ongoing process in the United States and other countries. Police (e.g. in Los Angeles ) have sometimes supported their privatization , claiming that public toilets are "crime scenes" that attract illegal activity.
The Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation of WHO and UNICEF has defined improved sanitation as follows: flush toilet, [4] connection to a piped sewer system, connection to a septic system, flush/pour-flush to a pit latrine, ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrine, pit latrine with slab, composting toilet and/or some special ...
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In the 1970s the Committee to End Pay Toilets in America made a similar point: that allowing toilet providers to charge for the use of a cubicle while urinals required no money was unfair to females. [6] Several authors have identified potty parity as a potential rallying issue for feminism, saying all women can identify with it. [3]