"We pee on the floor. We are like animals,"
"There is feces on the walls," "There is feces all over the place."
Why? That has more to say about the people themselves than anything else.
Well they did lose their water supply, and so I imagine that the situation in the toilets went from bad to worse rather quickly.
. . . sounds like county. lol
You put 25,000 people in a confined space without sanitation and they produce a very large amount of bodily wastes that will accumulate at the rate of something like 50tons per day. I'm sure a section of the facility could have been set aside for defecation and urination or other measures could have been taken that could have prevented the worst of this contamination. But the sheer volume of the material would have been the same regardless of where it was deposited.
Could not have said it better!! This is the crux OF IT ALL!
sounds like a housing project in any inner city. Particularly the elevators.
The toilets are full - the waste bins are full. If one of your family has to pee, you all go together for safety. No one is guarding your possessions. Someone may take your spot, where you might have been comparably safe. You have to wade through waste anyway. I can see exhausted mothers telling their children, just do it here.
When the Japanese suffer an earthquake or tsunami, we don't witness this kind societal breakdown. Even the most impoverished Japanese will behave himself. The Japanese, who have, since the end world war II, taken the inventions of others, and improved upon them, seem to have done as well with self-government as cars, tvs, and the vcr. Too many of our people, especially at the lower end of the spectrum, seem not to know what self-government is, witness conditions in this place. It is "lord of the flies" for grownups. I agree with other posters that since the '60s the constant drumbeat of you're a victim, society owes you, is responsible for this.