Jack Sim
Jack Sim
Jack Simis the founder of the Restroom Association of Singapore and World Toilet Organization. Formerly in the construction industry, he left to found the World Toilet Organization in 2001. For "creating good will and bringing the subject into the open" and "mobilizing national support in providing on-the-ground expertise" he received the Schwab Foundation award for Social Entrepreneur of the Year, also in 2001. He was elected a Fellow of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in 2007, and as of Fall...
add buildings code licence male needed practice recommend
The Code of Practice is needed for all new buildings before they can get licence to occupy. So it's actually enforced. If you add all the urinals and cubicles in male toilet, you must get the same in women's. We recommend getting one or two more for the ladies' restrooms.
worse
It's long overdue. It can't get worse than what's already happening. It can only get better.
awkward drink korea tea toilets
I know of some toilets in Korea where you can drink tea -- you don't feel you are in an awkward situation.
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There are 2,6 billion people in the world who have no toilets, ... They are toilet-less and what we are trying to do is to build capacity for field engineers to go down to the farms, to the rural areas, to build ecological sanitation.
talk
We have been conditioned not to talk about it,