But who needs a flush toilet when you have wild open yak pastures and alpine meadows?

BBC: Give me a home where the snow leopards roam

The dual-flush toilet I used had a cheap, plastic flushing mechanism that was already broken.

FORBES: India's Airport Boom Embraces Green Building

More people now have mobile telephones around the world than have access to a flush toilet.

FORBES: More People Have Mobile Phones Than Toilets

And I did enjoy a relatively peaceful ride with plenty of leg room, a flush toilet and early-'80s, MTV-style patterned upholstery.

WSJ: At Least the Price Is Right

This creates a mildly disinfecting solution that can be used to flush the toilet.

ECONOMIST: Monitor: Flushed with pride | The

Then, hearing the boy flush the toilet in the cubicle behind her, she scooped up the nasty mess with some paper towels and dropped it into the black bag she had with her for rubbish, so that he would not have to see it.

NEWYORKER: Friendly Fire

You may have to flush your toilet twice because of the low flow standards from the Department of Energy, and when you go downstairs for breakfast, even the size of the holes in the Swiss cheese that you grate into your omelet are regulated by the Department of Agriculture.

NPR: A GOP Consensus at the Economic Conference

WaterSense-equivalent fixtures reduce toilet flush rates by 20% and urinal flush rates by 50%.

FORBES: GSA Goes Deep Green With Next-Gen Green Leasing Standards

Engineers like to point out that it takes just one-and-a-half gallons of water--one toilet flush--to create enough hydrogen for an average day's driving, 30 miles.

FORBES: Magazine Article

People flush a lot of oestrogen down the toilet.

ECONOMIST: Human contraceptives are bad for fish