Shanghai Expo 2010 potty plans: Chances are you'll be squatting – China News

www.chinatravel.net — The Shanghai Expo organizing committee has just released their plan for providing an anticipated 70 million Expo-goers with bathroom facilities. The verdict? The facilities of choice at the cleanest, greenest, most high-tech Expo ever will be squatter toilets. Suffocating and notoriously icky, they're truly the stuff of Expat nightmares. But, they're China's potty of choice...

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