Toilet summit

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Toilet conference opens in Delhi

[pascal Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pascal]

Dunno what to say....but I guess this is a common problem to India and some parts of Asia or even in Africa.

[CarolF Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close CarolF]

Anita Jha, vice-president of Sulabh International explains, "We have several models of traditional Indian-style squat toilets. These range in cost from 700 to 3,000 rupees ($18 - $75) and also use very little water."

"That makes them very useful in countries with a water scarcity problem," she says.

Well, I don't know about the cost of toilets in the US but this looks like a bargain to me .

With water scarcity problems being discussed world wide - I suggest we might be discussing "toilet issues" more fully in the future .

[marsha7 Member Find all posts View Profile Close marsha7]

There are alot of people in other parts of the world who don't have the basics. Thank God I was born in the US.

[M. Henley Class President Find all posts View Profile Close M. Henley]

U.S. Toilet Hardship?

Having grown up without indopor plumbing or electricity (or access to anything much hygenic, as mules and hawgs were not simon-pure of germs), I wonder what percentage of the world's population had the hygene access problem back in the fifties.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Here in eastern Europe, the toilet is often just a hole in the ground, once you get outside the major cities. Even the old North Carolina outhouses had a seat to sit down on, but not the ''squatters'' around here.

[richardr Member Find all posts View Profile Close richardr]

As well as the squat toilets I remember from Eastern Europe & Turkey , there were over water beach ones in Togo in West Africa. A raised wooden walk way led to a raised outhouse above the beach. The tide would take away the results.

IN the news this week the Mayor of Battleford Saskatchewan wants to hit up the province for assistance to replace the towns toilets,shower heads etc. with water saving units to cut the towns water usage by 30%{www.cbc.ca}.

I am old enough to remember the arrival of T. V. & indoor plumbing to Ontario of the 1950's. Todays generation will never expierence that old rural Halloween custom of outhouse tipping!

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

Some places over here, such as railway stations in major cities have made an improvement - flush squatters; still a hole in the floor, but with running water down before to take the results away. When installing plumbing, they did not spend a few more lei or lev or forints to put in a regular toilet is beyond me.