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VitrA is a Turkish manufacturer of sanitaryware, bathroom furniture, brassware and ceramic tiles. It is part of the Eczacıbaşı Group, a multinational corporation involved in building materials and consumer products. The company has been working with famous designers such as Ross Lovegrove (whose work lead to the prestigious Red Dot Design Award), Matteo Thun, Ambrogio Rossari, the German Designbüro NOA,Inci Mutlu 
The new VitrA offices, The Jerde Partnership (Los Angeles) 
The new VitrA offices at Canyon, The Jerde Partnership (Los Angeles) VitrA’s started in 1942 when a Ceramic Factory was built in Kartal, Turkey. After the war, the company started growing rapidly, its core production being ceramic plumbing fixtures. This represented a real innovation in the Turkish market, dominated by marble. The ceramic novelty brought to an immediate success, so much that in 1958 a second production plant was created. In 1966 the VitrA brand name was adopted. Also, this began representing a large range of plumbing products. Another ceramic factory was then created in 1977, a fittings plant in 1979, and a tiles factory in 1991. The following year, a bathroom furniture factory was created The early 80s saw the company begin to exports its products, initially to Germany. In 1999 a factory was acquired in Ireland. Today the company exports to over 80 countries.
This article describes modern sewer systems designed to carry sanitary waste to a treatment facility while excluding storm runoff. See combined sewer for a description of early sewers designed to convey sanitary and industrial wastes with storm water or storm drain for a description of a separate drainage system designed to carry runoff from urban streets.
PVC Sanitary Sewer Installation. Sanitary sewers are sized to carry the amount of sewage generated by the collection area. Sanitary sewers are much smaller than combined sewers designed to also carry surface runoff. The few sanitary sewers large enough for a man to stand erect typically carry flows that would sweep him off his feet. 
A manhole cover for a sanitary sewer access point 
Interior photo of a large sanitary sewer from an access manhole A sanitary sewer (also called a foul sewer) is a separate underground carriage system specifically for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings to treatment or disposal. Sanitary sewers serving industrial areas also carry industrial wastewater. The ’system of sewers’ is called sewerage. Sanitary sewers are operated separately and independently of storm drains, which carry the runoff of rain and other water which wash into city streets. Sewers carrying both sewage and stormwater together are called A bathroom is a room that may have different functions depending on the culturalist context. In the most literal sense, the word bathroom means "a room with a bath". Because the traditional bathtubs have partly made way for modern showers, including steam showers, the more general definition is "a room where one bathes". There can be just a shower, just a bathtub or both; and often both plumbing fixtures are combined in the bathtub. The room may also contain a sink, often called a "wash basin" or "hand basin" and often a "lavatory". In the United States, "bathroom" commonly means "a room containing a lavatory". In other countries this is usually called the "toilet" or alternatively "water closet" (WC), lavatory or "loo". The word "bathroom" is also used in the U.S. for a public toilet (the more formal U.S. term being "restroom"). In the United States, bathrooms are generally categorized as master bathroom, containing a shower and a tub that is adjoining to a master bedroom, a "full bathroom" (or "full bath"), containing four plumbing fixtures: bathtub, shower, toilet, and sink; "half (1/2) bath" (or "powder room") containing just a toilet and sink; and "3/4 bath" containing toilet, sink, and shower, although the terms vary from market to market. In some U.S. markets, a toilet, sink, and shower are considered a "full bath". This lack of a single, universal definition commonly results in discrepancies between advertised and actual number of baths in real estate listings. An additional complication is that there are currently two ways of notating the number of bathrooms in a dwelling. One method is to count a half bathroom as ".5" and then add this to the number of full bathrooms (e.g., "2.5" baths would mean 2 full baths and 1 half bath). The other, newer method is to put the number of full bathrooms to the left side of the decimal point and to put the number of half bathrooms to the right of the decimal point (e.g., "2.1" would mean 2 full baths and 1 half bath; "3.2" would mean 3 full baths and 2 half baths). 
A smaller U.S. residential bathroom 
A Hong Kong bathroom saves space by combining the shower and rest of the bathroom Fitting can refer to:
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