It is a registered, profitable business in Ghana that provides families with a toilet in their home at a cost comparable with inconvenient public toilet options.

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Their solution is to create a financially self-sustaining public toilet system.

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Firefighters were called Saturday to the residential building in the Pujiang area of the eastern Zhejiang province city of Jinhua to rescue a baby trapped in the L-joint of a sewage pipe just below a squat toilet in one of the building's public restrooms.

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Another 200 miles north is Carnarvon, where we lingered only long enough to hear local boosters tout the thrill of driving the Kingsford Smith Mail Run, a route starting at the town's fully automated public toilet and ending inland some 500 miles farther on at Meekatharra.

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