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📬 February 2026 FLUSH Newsletter!

🚽 Toilet history & repurposed urinals
🌫️ Air quality & kids
🏛️ Ancient Greek water
📊 Case studies: zurl.co/DaSvg & Solarid
🎥 Bathhouse of the Winds video
📚 Global Waters 2.0

👉 Read: zurl.co/rmIrU

💬 Water story or toilet sighting? Share!

🚽💧 Toilet tourism, but make it ancient—on video.

Our founder Kimberly Worsham steps inside the Bathhouse of the Winds: an Ottoman bathhouse where water, warmth, and sanitation worked as one system.

Marble. Warm basins. Toilets—for women and men.

👀 Watch!
📖 Read More 👉 zurl.co/j3plE

🚽💧 Toilet tourism, but make it ancient—on video.

Our founder Kimberly Worsham takes us inside the Bathhouse of the Winds: an Ottoman bathhouse where water, warmth, and #sanitation worked as one system.

Marble. Warm basins. Yes—#toilets.

👀 Watch
📖 Read more 👉 zurl.co/ezcl0

🌍 FLUSH Blog Reflections | Climate-Resilient WASH

We’re spotlighting a blog from Shockwave Foundation by CEO Jennifer Wegbreit on the WASH resources they wish existed 5 years ago—practical tools, real case studies, and clearer links between funding and resilience.

🔗 Read: zurl.co/OHiCb

🌍 New on the FLUSH blog | Clean air is not optional

As we expand our #climate work, FLUSH is looking beyond water to air. Air #pollution—often invisible—is deeply tied to water, waste, health, and climate resilience.

Associate Paulson Kasereka explores air pollution in the DRC
🔗Read: zurl.co/ZeHUg

🚽💧 New on the FLUSH blog

Ancient Greece wasn’t just temples—water and #sanitation shaped cities and public health.

Founder Kimberly Worsham explores ancient #toilets, pipes, and #water systems—and why they mattered.

👉 Read: zurl.co/YtA4o

What happens after you flush?

For millions of households, it’s septic systems—not sewers.

📚 From the FLUSH archives, Founder Kimberly Worsham breaks down how septic tanks work, where they came from, and why what you flush matters 👀

👉 Read: zurl.co/iQFpx

What happens after you flush?

For millions of households, it’s septic systems—not sewers.

📚 From the FLUSH archives, Founder Kimberly Worsham breaks down how septic tanks work, where they came from, and why what you flush matters 👀

👉 Read: zurl.co/iQFpx

Menstrual health is more than products 💧

#FLUSH Associate, Merihene Ben Said reflects on stigma and missed opportunities, drawing on Fiji & Bangladesh assessments from zurl.co/Y4hPt.

🔗 Read more: zurl.co/FrV2g

💧 Living with Water in a Climate-Changed Future

In a new FLUSH blog, Roz Palmer explores why gray infrastructure is falling short—and how nature-based solutions, #Indigenous knowledge, and better #communication can help us live with water, not fight it.

👉 Read more: zurl.co/A08Nh

Why communication still matters in water & sanitation 💧

Last year, our Founder was featured in ROCKBlue’s Urban Flow 2025, reflecting on how clearer, more inclusive communication can shape impact in the U.S. WASH sector.

We’re revisiting the conversation—and why it still matters.
🔗 zurl.co/TZ4Qe

New on the FLUSH blog — January reads are live! 💧

We’re kicking off 2026 with new blogs, new team members, and reflections from the global water sector. From sanitation stories to climate resilience—and insights from IWA Congress in Thailand—there’s a lot to explore.

Read more: zurl.co/licao

Welcome to FLUSH, Roz!

We’re excited to welcome Roz Palmer as our newest #Associate. With experience in water and climate planning & a passion for community-centered communication, Roz brings insight to our work at the intersection of people, water, & climate resilience.

Welcome to the team, Roz!

The waste we don’t talk about

When we talk water & sanitation, human waste gets the spotlight, but dog waste is a growing, overlooked threat to urban water quality & health.
Our Founder reflects on why “other waste issue” matters & why everyday actions in cities add up.

🔗 Read more: zurl.co/Mia77

Meet Musarrat J. Rahman, PhD, our new Investigative Research Intern at FLUSH.

A mixed-methods health scientist with 8+ years’ experience across global institutions, UN agencies, and governments

Musarrat will research historical & current water stories to strengthen our data-driven storytelling.

Meet Lucy, #FLUSH new Creative Content Intern! She’s a communication specialist and an advocate for indigenous languages.

Lucy will apply her #creative and communication skills in generating content for FLUSH #socialmedia presence.

We’re glad to have you with us, @Lucy! 👋

If you think #toilet humor is a modern thing and earlier generations were more reserved, you’re in for a big surprise. Archaeologists discovered mosaics in a Roman latrine in Turkey proving that dirty jokes have been around for 2,000 years.🤯 Check it out: allthatsinteresting.com/anci...

FLUSH in Numbers | 2025 💧

Grateful for a year of impact advancing WASH, climate resilience, sanitation dialogue, and water stewardship with our partners.

By the numbers:
8 projects | 10 associates | 16 conferences | 8 events

Onward to 2026 🚀

From Bangkok to the world 🌍
At the IWA Water & Development Congress 2025, FLUSH Founder Kimberly Worsham shared insights, built partnerships, & connected with global leaders shaping the future of water, sanitation, & innovation.
✨ A powerful way to end 2025

#IWA2025 #WaterInnovation #Sanitation

AI is already helping organizations make smarter, lower-carbon choices (from energy management to sourcing sustainable building materials). At the same time,... AI's Environmental Impacts Roundtable - Better Worlds AI

Did you miss our recent panel about the environmental impacts of AI? Don't worry - it was recorded! You can check out the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJXu...
#AI #environment #WaterUse #Panel #YouTube

Happy World Toilet Day! 🚽🎊

Today is the biggest day of the year for the WASH community, as it draws attention to the need for safe sanitation for everyone and reminds the world how important toilets really are.

#WorldToiletDay2025

Have you had a chance to read our November newsletter yet? 🤓

Our newsletter this month celebrates the upcoming World Toilet Day, recaps some recent events, and even includes a request from UN-Water to professionals who want to contribute to the SDGs! Check it out: itsflush.com/so/b5PdpNIxo?la...

Grab a cup of tea and get comfortable for an evening of short #toilet stories, as our team shares a few of their most shocking and downright uncomfortable bathroom experiences ahead of #WorldToiletDay2025. Read them all in our new blog: www.itsflush.com/post/chilli...

When visiting the Tenement Museum in NYC, our Founder @kimlikestoilets.bsky.social explored the sanitation realities faced by early urban immigrants in the US. Learn more in our blog: www.itsflush.com/post/toilet...

Not sure how to celebrate #WorldToiletDay this year? Check out our blog for some celebrations happening before, on, and after Nov 19: www.itsflush.com/post/celebr...

Not in the mood for events and would prefer something more low-key? Enjoy our fun coloring page (download it for free from the blog)!

Here are a few reads you might find interesting:

👉 Should we apply risk thinking to climate change?
probablefutures.org/risk/

👉 Can we poop outdoors without contaminating the environment?
share.google/FG7hwmSzWE07wQcaY

👉 Are wet wipes flushable?
blog.whogivesacrap.org/home/...

#PublicHealth

In Australia, engineers are working on #fatberg-fighting tech that could save cities billions in #sewer cleaning: newatlas.com/materials/fatbe...

Meet Sabita Adhikari, who recently joined us as an #Associate! 🙌

Fun fact: she loves talking to her plants and gives high-fives to trees on her walks! 🌱

Meet all our Associates here: www.itsflush.com/meet-the-as...

Here are some places to find the creepiest #WASH stories:

☠️ Spooky Lakes Month by @geodesaurus.bsky.social: www.georutherford.com/

☠️ Toilets with Threatening Auras: www.reddit.com/r/scarytoilets/

☠️ What Lurks in the Outhouse by @jenbarr.bsky.social: www.itsflush.com/post/toilet...


#Halloween

'Restoring dignity': Kenya slum exchange offers water for plastic The Human Needs Project provides water and sanitation services in a part of Kenya where they are scarce and costly.

n some of Kenya’s low-income neighborhoods, people can trade #plastic waste for #CleanWater, showers, #toilets, laundry, and meals: www.japantimes.co.jp/environ...