Toilets here are readily available, even for poor families, should they want to install one. In all but the largest cities, the toilet empties into a septic tank anyway; city sewer systems are rudimentary at best. So it’s not that they can’t get them. It really is the culture. Most just don’t want one, even the typical “squat”-style ones that are little more than a fancy hole in the floor.
... Most just don’t want one, even the typical “squat”-style ones that are little more than a fancy hole in the floor.
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During a Med cruise with the US Navy in 1961, and walks through our port cities in Italy, Greece and Sicily revealed courtyards with holes in the ground around the perimeter and flat stones in front of each one. Those areas were approx. 30x30 ft. and open, with no roofs or privacy. Public toilets. .........Also people with cook fires in the streets (more like alleys) living in shelters made from shipping crates and kids running loose like packs of dogs trying to attack US sailors to rob cigarettes, wallets, lighters, etc. .....We never walked with less than four of us, and we still had to fight a few times. ....Hope things have changed since then.
why is it that other South Asia countries do not folow similar procedures? Similar poverty , similar rural lifestyles , similar human requirements ...yet each house or ville take the time to address the needs for facilities and no other people wander about in the open fields with water pots. Water urns next to nice little porcelain low level squatters perform admirably . Everywhere , except Tibet ....