Need to locate a clean public toilet urgently? There's an app for that

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Singaporeans can now track the status of the city-state's public toilets in real time, as a program to monitor facilities' cleanliness gets its own smartphone application.

"This app provides toilet users with the convenience of locating a clean toilet nearby and also providing feedback on a dirty toilet they have just visited," Emerson Hee, the program's executive director, said on Thursday.

Hee's Restroom Association of Singapore (RAS) launched the app on Wednesday, which will relieve hygiene-conscious Singaporeans of the suspense of stepping into a convenience of unknown cleanliness.

The LOO (Let's Observe Ourselves) Connect app classes the country's 40,000 public toilets into categories from disgusting to certified.

Toilets need at least a 4-star rating to pass muster as user-friendly, Hee said.

The Android-based app is a work in progress and relies on user contributions for data.

Users can post comments and photographs of toilets registered on the system, or add new locations on a special map.

As part of its Happy Toilet program, which has been running online for several years, the association also hopes to encourage the owners of persistently offensive facilities to brush up.

The app was developed by the Singapore Land Authority and Nanyang Polytechnic and can be downloaded on the Google Play Store.