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Rebecca Gianotti
- Sep 5
- 5 min
Exploring Quirky Australian Toilet Culture
Australia. Land of strange and wonderful things. The platypus and echidna. Vegemite. Australian football. So many highly venomous...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Jun 18
- 3 min
What is Data-Driven Storytelling?
FLUSH is happy to offer services helping water and sanitation providers improve their relationships and build stakeholder trust through...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Apr 29
- 1 min
Life Management Science Labs
Australian-based Life Management Science Labs recently interviewed FLUSH's Founder, Kim, for a podcast about plumbing basics! The podcast...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Mar 17
- 4 min
After the FLUSH: Meet the Septic System
When we attend events, one of the most common questions from the public is, "What happens when I flush my toilet??" The beauty of this...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Jan 3
- 5 min
The Sanitary Situation in US Prisons
The Founder of FLUSH recently visited the historic Alcatraz in San Francisco, CA (USA). Viewing the prominence of toilets in prison cells...
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Gloria Odenyo
- Oct 25, 2022
- 1 min
Do Experts Talk Toilets Differently than Everyone Else?
Before we continue, let's just answer the question - yes. Note: The research report is available in our Resource Library and can be...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Jul 25, 2022
- 3 min
Why Archaeologists Love Toilets
Toilets and trash – sanitation – are a big deal. Not just existing sanitation systems, though – we mean all toilets and trash that have...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Jun 1, 2022
- 7 min
The Many Ways of Scaling Sanitation
The word "scale" gets used a lot in sanitation, and sometimes with confusion. So we at FLUSH wanted to make sure we could help clarify...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Apr 25, 2022
- 6 min
After the FLUSH: Sewers via the Yonkers Wastewater Plant
One of the most common questions we get from the public when we attend events is, "What happens when I flush my toilet??" The beauty of...
227 views

Samiya Coney
- Apr 14, 2022
- 5 min
Toilet Thoughts: What about Chemo?
With continued conversations on the reuse of fecal waste for agricultural products, there has been growing concern and questions about...
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Kelsey McWilliams
- Feb 2, 2022
- 4 min
Sewers and the Circular Economy
We at FLUSH like to explain how sanitation systems work and why they matter – simply. Something that can be confusing – and misunderstood...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Jan 18, 2022
- 6 min
Inclusion in the WASH Workforce: Moving Beyond Diversity
Recently, FLUSH hosted a workshop with WaterAid America about organizational DEI. For those who haven't heard the term yet, DEI stands...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
What is Toilet Tourism?
At FLUSH, we use the term “toilet tourism” a lot when we find fascinating toilets on our travels. So we thought it would be worthwhile to...
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Ryan Jeffrey
- Jul 15, 2021
- 6 min
A World Without Sanitation
It can be easy to forget the protections that protect people because they have become so ingrained in our society and have faded to the...
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Claire Benveniste
- Feb 3, 2021
- 3 min
Sanitation Workers at Risk: A Journey into Paris Sewers
Claire Benveniste is a sanitation specialist and manages a french blog about sanitation called La Fée Cale. This blog post originally...
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Sydney Grad
- Nov 30, 2020
- 7 min
Behavior Can Change WASH
Apprentice Sydney Grad's Behavior Change Journey Note: The infographic above can be better viewed in detail by downloading the PDF file:...
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Kimberly Worsham
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Where's the Toilet?
No matter where you live or your native tongue, we all have to ask where the toilet is sometimes. Sure, lots of people know English, but...
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Eline Bakker
- Nov 18, 2020
- 3 min
A Love Letter to Sewer Workers
This is a love letter to the often overlooked and underappreciated wastewater worker, written by Associate Eline Bakker and Founder Kim...
114 views

Kimberly Worsham
- Nov 15, 2020
- 2 min
What is Sanitation?
Sanitation is waste and what we do with it. Sanitation is how we manage waste in and around our environments to keep us and our...
487 views