Much as I love to bash Apple, I have to say this is sensationalism. For example:
“Workers operated water taps by pedalling and squatting toilet cubicles positioned over open sewerage drains...”
This is par for the course in China. They don’t use toilets, they squat. They don’t have electric pumps on all their water lines, so you may need to pump manually to get it going. Basically, they have industrialization in the private sector, but when it comes to the public or domestic sectors they are somewhere in between a medieval agrarian nation and a modern one.
Boogieman wrote: “Much as I love to bash Apple, I have to say this is sensationalism. For example: “Workers operated water taps by pedalling and squatting toilet cubicles positioned over open sewerage drains...”
“This is par for the course in China. They don’t use toilets, they squat.”
In Korea too. You put in a real toilet and they stand on the rim and squat. Be very careful when you sit down.