Millions die each year from polluted water, and there is more concern for nebulous “global warming” which hasn’t killed anyone. Makes no sense.
Sad to hear so many have no decent place to go.
It’s so easy to make a sanitary outhouse/latrine
Also very easy to make a septic system for little $.
A nice septic system can be made with cinder blocks, plastic pipe, some large fill gravel, some tar, and a nice sturdy lid.
A nice sanitary outhouse needs only a shovel, a hand saw, some lumber and a little time.
There are lots of plans available on the web.
Some people take the toilet shortage VERY seriesly, and hold on to theirs for dear life!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992645/posts
I have three of them in my house. With only two of us, no one has to squirm and wait.
3 years of their life? To make the math simple, assume people live to be 60. 3 years would be 5%, or 1.2 hours/day.
Guess folks in the UK don’t have a lot to do...or maybe a great deal, depending on how you think about it.
And yet they are humans just like us. With the power to reason, the energy to work, and raw materials all about them. So why can't they even build a decent out house?
Culture perhaps?
Proof that the world has its eyes on the wrong things.
I’m going to combine earth-hour and world toilet day. Between 8 and 9 pm Saturday night, I’m not going to use my toilet. (I’ll probably just go out in the back yard if I need to take a leak).
I recall years ago being perched upon a stool (no pun) in the Longshot Saloon in San Marcos, Calif (not CA) sipping on my Coors—this was before I finally realized what good beer was.
I became aware that an old broad next to me was watching me sip me beer—she finally informed me that that beer company always advertised and referred to the water they brewed from. She then waited a brief time waiting for that to sink in—pause for effect. By now others had perked up their ears and were listening. She finally made her point, saying that previously had lived near that brewery and regularly had urinated in the river/stream, whatever, that they referred to.
This brought her her earned laughter and smirks from the listeners. I, too, paused for effect, chugged the rest of my beer down and said something to the effect that she had done the water no harm, and, perhaps, even contributed to the taste.
The listeners apparently got a great kick out of all this.
The world is a sh!tty place, folks—get used to it!