A toilet is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human waste (pee and feces) and often toilet tissue, generally for disposal. Flush bathrooms utilize water, while dry or non-flush bathrooms do not. They can be designed for a sitting placement popular in Europe and North America with a bathroom seat, with extra considerations for those with disabilities, or for a squatting posture more preferred in Asia, called a squat bathroom. In metropolitan areas, flush bathrooms are usually linked to a drain system; in isolated locations, to a septic system. The waste is called blackwater and the combined effluent, including various other resources, is sewer. Dry commodes are attached to a pit, detachable container, composting chamber, or various other storage space and therapy device, including urine diversion with a urine-diverting commode. "Bathroom" or "commodes" is additionally widely utilized for rooms including only one or even more toilets and hand-basins. Bathroom is an older word for bathroom. The innovation utilized for contemporary toilets differs. Toilets are commonly constructed from ceramic (porcelain), concrete, plastic, or timber. More recent bathroom modern technologies include dual flushing, low flushing, toilet seat warming, self-cleaning, female urinals and waterless rest rooms. Japan is known for its toilet modern technology. Aircraft toilets are specially made to operate airborne. The need to keep anal hygiene post-defecation is globally recognized and bathroom tissue (usually held by a commode roll holder), which may additionally be made use of to clean the vulva after urination, is extensively used (as well as bidets). Secretive homes, depending upon the area and design, the toilet may exist in the same washroom as the sink, bath tub, and shower. Another alternative is to have one room for body washing (also called "shower room") and a different one for the toilet and handwashing sink (bathroom area). Public commodes (bathrooms) consist of several toilets (and typically single urinals or trough urinals) which are offered for usage by the public. Products like rest room blocks and toilet blocks help keep the odor and cleanliness of commodes. Bathroom seat covers are often utilized. Portable commodes (often chemical "porta johns") may be generated for big and short-lived celebrations. Historically, cleanliness has actually been a problem from the earliest phases of human settlements. However, numerous poor homes in developing nations use really fundamental, and commonly unhygienic, commodes –-- and 419 million people have no access to a toilet at all; they have to honestly excrete and pee. These problems can lead to the spread of illness sent using the fecal-oral course, or the transmission of waterborne diseases such as cholera and dysentery. For that reason, the United Nations Sustainable Advancement Goal 6 intends to "attain access to ample and equitable hygiene and hygiene for all and end open defecation".
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