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This common habit may seem harmless, but the health risks associated with prolonged toilet breaks should prompt us to ...
The Penticton Secondary School graduating class of 2025 and the Pen High Dry Grad committee are hosting a fundraiser that lasts the entire month of May and involves businesses all over Penticton.
As the planet gets hotter and freshwater sources dry up, cities and towns will not be able to continue the global norm of ...
El Paso’s dry climate — it rains just 9 inches annually — is one of the reasons the city has taken water management so ...
You’ve probably noticed it a hundred times but never really thought about it– those two buttons on your toilet flush. One small, one big. You press whichever feels right in the moment ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A DRUGS boss was caught short when he tried to flush a burner phone down the toilet. Corey Barnett, aged 29, from Newport made a desperate ...
Innocently flushing the wrong item down the toilet could cost you big time in your wallet. And it all could have been avoided if you had just tossed the item in the trash can instead of trying to ...
A new Water Research Commission study has found that Cape Town residents may be willing to shift to flushing their toilets ...
When the toilet’s flush button is pressed, a valve opens and the vacuum sucks the waste in the bowl into a holding tank. Only a small amount of liquid sanitising solution is required to clean ...
Janet Martin, like Ms Clark, renovated a toilet block that had been derelict for many years and was no longer in public use. "It was about to be bulldozed and there was no recognition of it as an ...