Posted on 11/24/2015 2:37:43 PM PST by Angels27
Did you celebrate World Toilet Day? The recent holiday is a good reminder to rejoice as you read this article on your phone, maybe even while sitting comfortably on a modern, porcelain toilet, which flushes with water so crystalline clean you could, in hard times, drink it without too much fear of dying. (We do not recommend doing that, by the way.)
Going to the toilet wasn't always such a pleasant, risk-free experience for everyone, and even today, many people in America still go without proper sanitation. As recently as 1990, the rural stereotype of dropping trou in a shack out back was a reality for more than 1.1 million American households. If you think that's a lot of people, here's a little math for you. That represented 0.04 percent of the U.S. population back in 1990. Right here in 2015, a full 13 percent of the entire world's population are still living without access to an improved sanitation facility and are forced to defecate in the open. That's close to a billion people.
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does this count people in hospitals and nursing homes? people moving?
figures lie and liars figure.
Or, from the evidence in public restrooms, know how to use it.
It’s a San Francisco kind of thing.
Common thread, Appalachia and Indian Reservations (Look at the States with the highest percentage of outhouses) Regulations killed coal and jobs in Appalachia and government keeps native Americans on land where they can’t use their natural resources
Public schools - stupid people.
Well, you think with all the space in the white hut.....there would be a few toilets. But with the current level of S#! T coming out of from the current occupant.....I guess multiculturalism has its drawbacks.
Time to yank this imposter out......and modernize.
So?
Stupid article....
They’re full of cr**.
I agree...The world is our toilet!
Anti-American policies of the Obama Regime has left many in America without even a pot to piss in.
I think the math is wrong in the article.
1.1 million households is a lot more than .04 per cent of the population
balderdash
to make his point the author extrapolated America to the world to try to make a point that was not achievable
Journo mal practice
it’s going to be the EPA with their unopposed regulations who will take a dump on those who take a dump in an outhouse .
Reminds me of a story told by a friend who installed flooring. He got a contract for installations that were federal government funded in rural areas with a 'high native population.'
He got a callback on a job...the guy said the flooring in the bath was coming up. Well, it's a high moisture area, it happens.
Well, the bath was a little wetter than he had anticipated, because the guy had...cut a hole in the wall so...wait for it...his horse could drink from the bathtub.
They need to move to Flushing Meadows
Isn’t there a movement (no pun intended) to do away with flush toilets? This should please these algorian wackos.
Some days I wish I could homestead the Kazcinsky ranch and drop off the face of the earth....
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