Green groups praise ‘huge’ potential of cap-and-trade plan.
| Toilet Truths Despite modern marvels such as the space toilet, much of the world still endures a medieval level of sanitation. Nearly 2.6 billion people live without basic services, forced to defecate on the ground or line up to pay for the use of soiled latrines.Some historians give the flush toilet mythological origins in the court of King Minos of Crete. Queen Elizabeth I had one as well, built by her godson in 1596. In the nineteenth century, architects started to incorporate water closet innovations into their designs and the modern toilet was born. Thomas Crapper, a British plumber, had a hand in perfecting the cistern to make flushing quieter and more polite. |
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| Green groups praise ‘huge’ potential of cap-and-trade plan. Two environmental groups say Western Canada’s effort to price industrial greenhouse-gas emissions could ultimately form the basis for North America’s best response to climate change. |