The city beaches in Fort Lauderdale, Florida will soon be equipped with high-tech automated toilets that welcome its users with a polite greeting and also soothe them with light music during the process. The computerized toilets are expected to cost between $250,000 and $350,000 for a single-toilet restroom. The city commissioners voted Tuesday in favor of paying $25,259 to an engineering firm to design the site.

People who own a pet and plan to live in the upcoming luxurious 55-story condominium at Second Street and Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, will have a complete floor dedicated to a dog park for walks and pet toilets. According to Scott Ziegler, the architect from a firm involved in the construction of The Austonian - the condominium; this would be the first dog toilets ever in the country.

In an attempt to keep a check on vandalism, graffiti and drug use in parks, authorities at Walkersville Community Park in Maryland have asked visitors to bring their own toilet paper. Authorities were forced to take this action following an incident last week when vandals set some paper on fire in a men's bathroom at the park. The incident prompted Town Manager Gloria Long Rollins to announce Monday that all paper products have been removed from bathrooms at the town's four parks.

Inmates at a Kansas' prison now have to work out the methods for the economic use of toilet papers. The crisis has arisen from a prison's previously dormant policy which limits inmates to one roll at a time to stop unnecessary wastage. Under the policy, a prisoner at Hutchinson Correctional Facility will be restricted to four rolls of the 1,000 single-ply sheet toilet paper each month. Other than that, inmates will also be limited to three bars of hand soap, one tube of toothpaste and one comb each month.