"The U.S. Has Its Own Toilet Problem"

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ha-at first i thought this was talking about all the potty mouths around.-but seems to be another infrastructure problem.

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40022


Q&A: "The U.S. Has Its Own Toilet Problem"
Interview with Robert Brubaker of the American Restroom Association

Credit:American Restroom Association

Robert Brubaker

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 (IPS) - Come Nov. 21, the United Nations will formally launch the "Ínternational Year of Sanitation, 2008", with the primary goal of finding ways to provide toilet facilities to some 2.6 billion people worldwide who lack proper sanitation.

But this problem is not confined only to the world's poorest nations. The American Restroom Association (ARA) says there is a woeful shortage of public toilets in the United States, one of the world's most economically advanced countries.

Robert Brubaker, a long-time public advocate on this issue, and the programme manager for the American Restroom Association, told IPS that his organisation will "absolutely" join the U.N. efforts to help resolve the world's sanitation problems.

"The United States has its own toilet problems and the American Restroom Association is working to bring attention to it," he added, in an interview with IPS correspondent Nergui Manalsuren.

Excerpts from the interview follow.