Last year, a city in Orange County, California, started turning toilet water into drinking water.
You know, they took everything out of my cell, and all I had left was toilet water.
Mr. ERIC KROLL: I mean, it was like toilet water pretty much, and, you know, I'm nauseated now, trying to get my system back drinking water.
No word on the status of the soggy cellie, although after having soaked up toilet water for two hours, it would seem to have little value other than sentimental.
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Tomlinson, who carried this developing fluid disguised as a bottle of Ralph Lauren toilet water, claims the technique was discovered by accident when a secret message from Russia was being decoded in the 1980s.
They are required to detail whether they own a flush toilet or water heater and how much money they spent on buying a home a capitalist notion unthinkable just a decade ago.
"In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water, " she writes.
The design allows for passive solar heating in the winter, has a metal roof for rainwater collection and uses an incinerating toilet to minimize water usage and avoid the need for sewage disposal, said Carrie Caverly, an architectural designer.
Did you know that more people in the world have cell phones than access to a toilet, according to water.org?
In a city long accustomed to an abundance of everything, we Tokyoites can no longer find gasoline, rice, bottled water or toilet paper in stores.
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Cuty commended the ship's 1, 086 crew members, saying they went to great lengths to meet passengers' needs -- including redirecting emergency power to certain parts of ship to provide occasional water and toilet service.
Ruth Carr, 98, said water had come up through her toilet and sink and there was a lot of standing water in her back garden.
He noticed that the color of the water in the toilet had an inexplicable bluish tinge.
The project challenged inventors to come up with a toilet that operated without running water, electricity or a septic system.
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As I have famously said, about the only thing on the level on Wall Street is the water in the toilet bowls.
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Not knowing why he was being kept in the cell without food, water or a toilet for so long confused him, Iredale said.
Water can be easily stored and consumers have less discretion over when they use it (for instance, people cannot defer going to the toilet, which uses more water than any other activity at home), so the case for smart water meters is weaker.
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She grew up in a house with no hot water and an outdoor toilet.
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.
He began flooding his cell, by stuffing the door crack with socks, plugging the toilet, and flushing until the water was a couple of feet deep.
The mayor's suggestion in the summer heatwave of 2005 that Londoners saved water by flushing the toilet less frequently was considered an act of sacrifice too far for most people -- global warming or not.
Ms. SERPAS: To use the toilet, you have to carry the water in.
Water, granola bars, toilet paper, whatever snacks you like (you have permission to tear open the Halloween candy if necessary).
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The tomato sauce, onions, cheese, flour, potatoes and meat for that burger are flown 2, 400 kilometres from South Africa as is everything in Luanda: the paper napkins, plastic menus and cooking oil, bottled water, flashy cars, toilet seats, insect repellent.
Hot water, menus in English, toilet paper and public toilets are hard to come by in many areas, so stick to larger cities, which are more likely to have Western hotels.
Six million people had no access to an inside toilet, and seven million had no hot water, and most of these privations had nothing to do with the war.
An upstairs toilet overflowed and its automatic threshold for stopping the water failed to operate.
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The entries are as varied as the names we bestow: toilet, toilette, klo (in Germany), water closet, WC (and the Gallic counterparts double-v c or, in this impatient age, just VC).
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Mr Gumpert told the jury one of the workers lived in a horsebox with 10 others and the only washing facilities were a cold water tap in the yard and a shared toilet.
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