User:JustinePorto/Public toilets in Utah

Public toilets in Utah, often called washrooms, are found at a rate of 19 per 100,000 people. Lack of public toilets for truckers have resulted in fatal accidents.

= 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 19 public toilets per 100,000 people.

The lack of public toilets along major interstates in Utah led to a single-vehicle truck accident, with the driver dying while peeing into a plastic jug.

Toilets: A Spotter’s Guide published in 2016 included a public toilet in Monument Valley.

History
In the 1900s and 1910s, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Toledo, Worcester, Salt Lake City, Providence, Binghamton, Hartford, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Portland and the District of Columbia all built underground public toilets, most located in the city center in the local business district. The prestige of building underground public comfort stations was so high that some towns and cities who were unable to afford underground public toilets opted for none instead.

In the period between 2017 and 2018, there were several outbreaks of Hepatitis A Virus (HAV) in the United States that were driven largely by a result of homeless people and rough sleepers not having access to proper sanitary facilities, often a result of a lack of public toilets and resulting in open defecation. Early in this period after first emerging in San Diego and resulting in 20 deaths, the outbreak spread to Arizona, Utah and Kentucky.