Rose George’s absorbing book is about the global reality and politics of human defecation. Most of this book’s readers will be owners of or members of a community with ready access to a flush commode ...

The scourge that open defecation continues to constitute in 21st century Nigeria was quite rightly the focus of attention at the maiden two-day Toilet Business Owners Conference which took place in ...

A Reddit user took to the social media site to rant about the piles of poop he encounters daily on his walk to work and questioned why San Francisco pet owners don't clean up after their pets.

LONDON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Human defecation remains a taboo subject, despite the fact that 2.5 billion people lack toilets, causing a global health crisis that kills more than a million children each ...

Fiebelkorn and Councilor Nichole Rogers sponsored a measure to make the city responsible for cleaning up human poop on public and private property. Previously, residents and businesses were ...

Some of us are not aware of the impacts of open-air defecation. We are not even aware of what is open-air defecation. Basically, open-air defecation is the emptying of bowels in an open environment ...

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...