User:JustinePorto/Public toilets in New Mexico

Public toilets in New Mexico, commonly called washrooms, are found at a rate of around eleven public toilets per 100,000 people.

Public toilets
washroom is one of the most commonly used words for public toilet in the United States. Euphemisms are often used to avoid discussing the purpose of toilets. Words used include toilet, restroom, bathroom, lavatory and john.

A 2021 study found there were eleven public toilets per 100,000 people. The cleanest public toilets at a gas station in New Mexico, according to the GasBuddy, in 2019 were found at Chevron.

Public toilets are often located in semi-private public accommodations like hotels, stores, restaurants and coffee shops instead of being street level municipal maintained facilities.

History
Because Prohibition saw an increase in the construction of public toilets to address the new found demand, many municipalities located outside the South built sex-segregated public toilets that were essentially the same construction inside, with the same number of stalls and layout for each.

In Albuquerque in 2013, thieves were stealing metal pipes connected to automatic flush public toilets in places like fast food restaurants, Home Depot, Lowe’s and Arby’s. They often posed as plumbers when going into a business to justify the hardware tools they had on them. The thieves then sold these fixtures to local recycling centers.

Portable toilets were placed in Coronado Park in Albuquerque in the 2010s to assist the homeless community there, but only briefly and were soon removed after public health officials declared them a biohazard.