Rose George’s absorbing book is about the global reality and politics of human defecation. Most of this book’s readers will be owners of or members of a community with ready access to a flush commode ...

A restaurant is putting up a fence for an unconventional reason. Baton Rouge restaurant Roul’s Deli built a fence around the front of their Plank Road location on March 30 after repeated incidents of ...

The scourge that open defecation continues to constitute in 21st century Nigeria was quite rightly the focus of attention at the maiden two-day Toilet Business Owners Conference which took place in ...

Historically, open defecation has not been associated with shame, poverty, or poor hygiene. It was a socially established ...