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Toilet business can bring staggering profit of 900 percent
Pravda ^ | March 24, 2008

Posted on 03/31/2008 1:49:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Researchers from the UN University found out which business can bring a lot of profit to an investor. It is a construction business, although it does not go about the construction of large shopping malls or grocery stores. It goes about the construction of toilets. Every dollar invested in this business can bring the staggering 900-percent profit. For example, if an entrepreneur builds a 100-dollar bathroom, he or she may have the return of $900 in a certain period of time.

Experts studied statistics on the issue and conducted their own research before they came to such a surprising conclusion. The results of their work showed that a huge number of people, about one-third of the entire population – 2.6 billion people, including 980 million children – do not have access to normal bathrooms. Each of those people spend about 30 minutes a day to find a more or less decent toilet to relieve themselves. It is an open secret that a simple calculation shows that a human being loses about 15 hours of precious time a month. A year of such searches steals a whole week.

About $38 billion needs to be spent before 2015 to halve the number of the “sufferers.” This amount makes up less than one percent of the amount spent on defense needs. Investments in the construction of toilets can bring more than $300 billion of net profit. In addition, people’s health in many regions of the world will improve and the death rate will decline.

The issue is quite serious. The lack of decent toilets leads to the distribution of diarrhea, which annually kills over 1.8 million people, of whom 90 percent are children under five years of age. Hundreds of millions of others catch infectious and parasitic diseases. As a result, up to 12 percent of medical budgets are spent on the diarrhea treatment.

The lack of toilets in the world has another significant consequence – the sewage utilization. Over 200 million tons of faeces and hundreds of millions of tons of dirty water remain do not pass through any cleansing at sewage disposal plants. This enormous amount of biological dirt pollutes the environment and distributes dangerous infections. Experts are certain that 88 percent of all illnesses are connected with the shortage of safe drinking water and the low sanitary level.

The problem does not touch upon African and Asian countries alone. In Europe, millions of people have to live in homes without water supplies. About 16 percent of population of Eastern Europe does not have water and sewage systems in their homes.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: africa; asia; disease; europe; illness; pollution; population; sanitation
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1 posted on 03/31/2008 1:49:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pay Toilet
2 posted on 03/31/2008 1:52:42 PM PDT by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can see it now....Nancy Pelosi says America will provide toilets to the world.


3 posted on 03/31/2008 1:54:20 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Squidpup

Only in San Fransisco.....


4 posted on 03/31/2008 1:54:56 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

watch for bathroom prices to inflate as investors start buying toilet futures.


5 posted on 03/31/2008 1:56:00 PM PDT by utherdoul
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think the Pravda reporter who wrote this if full of crap.


6 posted on 03/31/2008 1:56:08 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who would stoop to such a thing?


7 posted on 03/31/2008 1:59:28 PM PDT by Eurale
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To: utherdoul

We need regulation of the toilet futures market & dirivitives so we don’t get a toilet crisis ala mortgage crisis.


8 posted on 03/31/2008 2:02:19 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

900 percent?

The thought of profits like that makes me flush with excitement - or maybe it’s just gas.


9 posted on 03/31/2008 2:03:12 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (feh)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a $#&ty job, but someone has to do it.


10 posted on 03/31/2008 2:04:05 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (The Presidential election is a race to the bottom. Which Party will out stupid the other to lose ?)
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To: norraad

the feds need to start budgeting for toilet bailouts if there isn’t more regulation.


11 posted on 03/31/2008 2:05:09 PM PDT by utherdoul
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To: reagan_fanatic

It’s a toliet bubble that’s fix’n to burst.


12 posted on 03/31/2008 2:10:55 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just pick one.

13 posted on 03/31/2008 2:14:53 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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Al: Bud, sit down. Let me tell you the story of the Ferguson. Now these babies were made in Maine, you know, at the little Ferguson factory. It's the Stradivarius of toilets. And my Dad could play it like a violin.

Yup, I'll never forget the time my dad took me to Maine to visit the factory. I had to go to the bathroom. And I begged him to pull into a truck stop. He said no, wait until we get there! It'll be worth it! It was!

Bud: Excuse me, Dad, but a toilet is a toilet.

Al: (grimacing) Bud... the toilets today aren't worthy of the name! They come in designer colors... they're too low! When you flush them, they make this weak, almost apologetic sound. But not the Ferguson. It only comes in white. And when you flush it... BaaaWOOOSH! That's a man's flush, Bud. A Ferguson says, "I'm a toilet. Sit down and give me your best shot." Oh, if only a Ferguson could speak, the tales it would tell!


14 posted on 03/31/2008 2:15:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: Deaf Smith
It’s a toliet bubble that’s fix’n to burst.

And when it does, boy will the sh*t hit the fan...
15 posted on 03/31/2008 2:22:20 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (feh)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; windcliff

With all of the money you can make, you will never be in arrears - err so to speak.


16 posted on 03/31/2008 2:31:26 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m quite sure that clean water remains the #1 problem in the third world.


17 posted on 03/31/2008 2:32:15 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (New York Times Endorsed!!!)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!!!!


18 posted on 03/31/2008 2:33:45 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
distribution of diarrhea

the sewage utilization

These two did not translate well...

19 posted on 03/31/2008 2:37:05 PM PDT by Onelifetogive (This is an Obama-nation!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Al Gore needs to get right on this....I’m sure CO2 is involved.


20 posted on 03/31/2008 2:38:46 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out Of Qurans)
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