The gravity flush toilet - which you probably have sitting in your bathroom right now - has a long history that goes back ...

Korea's sanitation success shows how modern flush toilets protect public health while quietly disrupting the natural nitrogen ...

Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder have confirmed what the germ-phobic among us have long suspected: The flush of a commercial toilet releases a Vesuvius-like cloud of tiny droplets and ...

Flushing a toilet can generate large quantities of microbe-containing aerosols depending on the design, water pressure or flushing power of the toilet. A variety of pathogens are usually found in ...

In an era where every drop of water matters, choosing the right toilet has become more than a home improvement decision—it is ...

To flush or not to flush. That was the question that designers and ecologists were asking each other this week as hundreds of people — who spend a lot of time thinking about these things — convened ...