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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
People in Alaska don’t need running water toilets so an Outhouse will do nicely unless it is 100 feet away during a blizzard.
If you watch the shows on Alaska living, you see that the pioneers take care of themselves better than many city-dwellers (check out the downtown alleys of DC or Baltimore or Philadelphia, etc).
In the desert, you don’t have much running water either.
Guess the author doesn’t get out into the real world much.
What a dumb article. The media is full of dumb people who think they are geniuses. (I intend no disparagement of the thread's author by that comment, BTW.)
Good question. I dunno. And I dunno how the Census took this into consideration one way or the other.
When we carefully exam the 1990 tables, it appears that the aggregated U.S. data is saying that 1.1% of American residences did not have tie-ins to public sewers, septic tanks, or cesspools. Using a multiplier of 2.6, we do wind up with 2.9 million Americans without regular indoor toilets in 1990.
That figure was 1.16 percent of the American population--not 0.4% and certainly not 0.04%.
The History of Thomas Crapper & Co. (the original patentees and manufacturers of bathroom appliances)
http://www.thomas-crapper.com/The-History-of-Thomas-Crapper.html
You’re right. Don’t know what got into me...must’ve lost my head.
The financial section wrote about this too, different headline:
Under Obama, startling number of Americans don’t have a pot to piss in.
Dude left his underwear on and the toilet cover down.
Gonna have a bad time. French fried when he shoulda pizza’d.
Math is not a required subject in journalism school.....................and neither is English grammar, apparently....................
“I still like the occasional midnight dump in the neighbors yard. It’s fun to watch them try to figure out what kind of a dog made it.”
Stay in Vermont. That will get you shot, legally in Texas.
I know I should have put a /sarc tag. Ha ha
Anyway I live in MA. There is crap all over. Not sure anyone would notice .
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