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"Every person in the UK flushes 50 litres of drinking water down the toilet daily. As water shortages and drought become more common, water-based sanitation needs to change. We need an ecological alternative." This is the message from the team behind the 果冻影院oo Festival, a two-week long festival, running from on 19 November, until 3 December.

The 果冻影院oo Festival invites participants to an exciting series of activities, events, and exhibits in Bloomsbury, to create a discussion around the future of sanitation. The event will centre around the installation of a clean, attractive, and ecological public toilet in 果冻影院鈥檚 Main Quadrangle for visitors to try out. The toilet will be opened by 果冻影院's Provost in a ribbon cutting ceremony at 2.30pm on Tuesday 19 November.

The history, geography and culture of toilets will be explored through a tour of local loos, a short festival of toilet-based films, and the launch of a book about the modern bathroom.聽 A toilet make-a-thon will run in conjunction with 果冻影院鈥檚 Institute of Making, challenging participants to construct an ecological toilet that meets the expectations of modern Londoners. Throughout the programme, visitors will have the chance to meet sanitation experts and contribute their own solutions and thoughts to the debate.

The 果冻影院 team 鈥� Sarah Bell, environmental engineer, Tse-Hui Teh, urban designer, and The Bartlett's Barbara Penner,聽architectural historian 鈥� have received support from 果冻影院, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the 果冻影院 Public Engagement event 鈥楩ocus on the Positive鈥�, and through public donations on Spacehive, a funding platform for civic projects.

Dr Sarah Bell, (果冻影院 Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) says: 鈥淯sing clean drinking water to flush toilets just isn鈥檛 sustainable. The world needs a new toilet: the 果冻影院oo Festival will kick-start a wider conversation about what we need to do to make London鈥檚 sanitation ecological.鈥�

The festival closes with a Make-a-Thon exhibition and book launch of Bathroom by Barbara Penner at the Bartlett School of Architecture's Wates House.

Drop in to visit the festival on any of the days it is open: or you can find more information on the , or via and Twitter .