Posted on 01/13/2019 1:50:00 PM PST by libstripper
Full title of article:
"A $350 toilet powered by worms may be the ingenious future of sanitation that Bill Gates has been dreaming about"
Excerpt:
Worm toilets require no traditional flushing and aren't hooked up to a sewer system — instead, worms compost human waste. More than 4,000 such "Tiger Toilets" have been installed to date across India, in homes of people who were previously defecating in the open. The worm toilets smell a lot better than a pit latrine, and don't breed mosquitoes either. Here's how a $350 toilet powered by worms could change the world and save lives.
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Exciting new invention...worms that do what they have done since the dawn of time. Amazing.
These high-tech dullards should get out of their cubicles more often.
+10
Is this from the Babylon Bee?
So now to really insult someone you say you hope they come back as an outhouse worm!?
How about cleaning up the Ganges, producing fresh water and installing water delivery and workable sewage solutions?
It’s about pollution. Clean up the pollution and you solve most of the world’s problems. The problem is no one is willing to discuss it because of political correctness. The culture of the population will have to change. Why spend 20 billion on cleanup efforts if the population continues to crap where it drinks?
I do not oppose anyone voluntarily deciding they want to have these in their homes.
However if you live in a city by law you have to be connected to city water and sewer systems. Usually suburbs and further out dont have such infrastructure and youve got wells, septic, and if you have anything its for road storm water and maybe incoming water service.
A largish part of India gets between 59 and 79 inches of rain in a five to six month period. Water tables screw with sewer systems under that situation.
Which part of Europe has monsoons?
Just being fair. It would be hellhole anyway.
What about jumping worms? They could escape and mess the carpets ...
Dude ... they don’t work well without indoor running water...
Read the article.
So if you didn’t have worms when you went in, you’d come out with them?
No thank you very much.
“A $350 toilet powered by worms”
What kind of worms eat poop? Do they multiply and start overflowing the toilet and taking over the house?
We used to have those in the South until about 1945, they were called outhouses...a structure built over a big hole, infested with worms (maggots) that “disposed” of the waste.
Back then there were flies everywhere, and, we all know that maggots are the larva stage of flies.
Eventually, the hole would get full, and they’d have to dig a new hole, move the outhouse structure over the new hole, and use the dirt to fill up the old hole.
For years afterwards, the grass always grew flush and green over the old location of the outhouse.
Maggots are worms, worms are maggots.
More than 4,000 such “Tiger Toilets” have been installed to date across India, in homes of people who were previously defecating in the open. ....................................... Those people who dedicate in the open, change addresses a lot. Whole towns relocate after a while, to the next location and then it repeats itself.
Hey Governor Newbeam! Put buckets of worms on CA city sidewalks every 3 blocks so our Sacred Homeless have a nice place to poop!
***and don’t breed mosquitoes either.***
What about flies? I remember those days.
In the storage building I use for a makeshift garage, there are about 10 toilets that have been sitting for decades.
No doubt the guts are all gone or rotted away.
They were from various refits/upfits of a small commercial shopping center.
There are some 80s era maybe porcelain sinks you’d see in the back of small stores and the like.
At some point, I guess they will go to the dump.
When it is 20 below zero, will the worms become little wormsicles?
20 below is not uncommon where I live.
Yikes.
Only if you add “...and die.”
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