Teen: Toilet Water Cleaner Than Fountain
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NORTH BEND, Ore. - Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.
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Compiled byCompiled by  LAUREN DONOVAN  Among things in life that are out of control is the smell of water - at least in Garrison.  Water users both in town and out of town are noticing the water has a distinct odor, and it sounds like the problem might persist for a while.
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TOKYO - When Naoko Ito uses a public bathroom, she cringes in embarrassment at the thought that other patrons can hear the sounds coming from her stall. That's when she turns to the "Sound Princess."   Ito, like a rapidly growing number of Japanese women, presses a device installed in public toilets to simulate the sound of water flushing - and mask the cruder noises of nature...
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Water. For years, Singapore has taken a utilitarian view of it. Great for shipping, good for rinsing semiconductors. But for fun? No way.
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It is safe to say that a world without safe, abundant and easily accessible water is hard for most Americans to imagine. The same goes for life without private, relatively clean places in which to go to the toilet.
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SEREMBAN: Young Harneeth Kaur never used to think much about environmental matters such as the climate, pollution and recycling.  But now, the Standard Five pupil of SK Methodist (ACS) here knows just what to do the next time it rains - store rain water.
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By REX SPRINGSTON  Take water from a river. Use a bunch of expensive equipment and chemicals to make it safe to drink.  Then pour it down the toilet.
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Â· Overflow of scalding water killed 10-month-old girlÂ· Inquest hears incident may lead to change in law
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By Doug Smeath Deseret Morning News  Rocky Anderson is taking his fight for a more eco-friendly Salt Lake City to a new enemy: bottled water.
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Orange County's new high-tech water-treatment plant takes the water that residents throw away, eradicates the junk and sends it back into the ground for drinking. Sound gross? Plant representatives say it's more pure than that fancy bottled water you buy in the store.
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I used to bathe my daughters together when they were babies and toddlers. I didn't wash them together just to save time. I was trying to save money and water. I might still force the issue, but my 12-year-old is horrified at the thought of having her little sister see her nude.
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A giant plastic toilet bowl on Berlin's swank Unter den Linden boulevard, the work of a French artist, has been raising more than a few eyebrows in recent days.
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A 13-year-old Moore County girl is among 31 people in North Carolina with confirmed cases of E. coli infection, according to state public health officials.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - It's never too late for toilet training. Some Malaysian colleges may soon offer courses on how to keep public restrooms clean, the national news agency reported Thursday.
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By SARAH ARNOLD  SURROUNDED by stinking sewage and a dirty rainbow of litter, a small boy and his friend splash around in their watery "playground".  The children whoop and shout as they swim among the rotting rubbish in the world's most polluted river system.
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The question of how to treat wastewater in an exclusive California beachfront community is pitting neighbors, surfers and environmentalists against one another.
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Gay teen seeks her own identity in a city where survival is part of everyday life.