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[Owen Byrne]

http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/11/15/singapore.toiletsummit
/index.html

Singapore shines in toilet summit
SINGAPORE --Singapore aims to cash in on the humble toilet while promoting
its reputation for being squeaky-clean, when it hosts the World Toilet
Summit next week.
Some 500 restroom professionals from around the world are expected to troop
to Singapore for a three-day summit beginning November 20, featuring
state-of-the-art restroom designs.
The restroom industry has developed to a point "where it was necessary to
create a significant international forum to highlight the contributions,
state-of-art and practices of the restroom trade and profession," the summit
organizer, the Restroom Association of Singapore, said in a statement.
The organizers added that Singapore is well placed to host the premiere
event, since it has excellent amenities and cleanliness.
Incidentally, China is sending 20 delegates to join the summit, apparently
to improve its notoriously foul public toilets, in time for the 2008
Olympics.
The official China Daily earlier reported that Beijing officials had agreed
to a two-year renovation plan for the 452 public toilets at 305 tourist
sites.
In addition to case studies on toilets in South Korea, Malaysia, Japan,
China, Korea, India, England, Finland and Australia, the seminar will also
include a forum on investments in toilets.
The even organizer has also planned a tour for the delegates to visit
Singapore's top three restrooms including themed lavatories at two downtown
shopping malls and the zoo.
Singapore's Zoo loo has toilets with rock walls and vegetation to give users
an outdoor experience, and regularly shines in Singapore's annual "Clean
Public Toilets" campaign.


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