Better Toilets Better life

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In rural India, the lack of toilets creates a big, stinking problem. It leads to poor quality water, one of the leading causes of disease in India, and has a disproportionately negative effect on women. Joe Madiath introduces a program to help villagers help themselves, by building clean, protected water and sanitation systems and requiring everyone in the village to collaborate — with significant benefits that ripple across health, education and even government.

 

[Raji Ram]

There is a long compound of a school next to our plot and shameless guys (Viswa NAththans and Ulaga NAththans)

use it as free toilet and make the whole place stink! Wonder when the place will be clean !! :dizzy:

When I read about that 'pee reflecting wall', I wished this compound to be replaced soon!

And ........... this is SingArach Chennai!! :lol:

 

[kunjuppu]

There is a long compound of a school next to our plot and shameless guys (Viswa NAththans and Ulaga NAththans)

use it as free toilet and make the whole place stink! Wonder when the place will be clean !! :dizzy:

When I read about that 'pee reflecting wall', I wished this compound to be replaced soon!

And ........... this is SingArach Chennai!! :lol:

dear raji,

there is no hope for any relief soon, for you, i think. people need to pee and poo. this is a basic daily need.

most of our servants do not have toilets, but how many of us would permit them or their children to use the facilities in our house?

not to worry though. till the 20th century, europe's now super clean cities and towns and villages, stank of human excreta. ofcourse there was no caste system there. so people did their business inside the house, in pots, and every day, the lady of the house (usually) dumped the whole thing in the streets.

if she lived up a storey, the whole gunk fell down on the street and woe to the pedestrian who was walking underneath

so too in india, maybe in 100 years, long after we have departed, maybe everyone will have a toilet, and your house will finally have some moksham, for whoever lives there, unless ofcourse the developers get to it, and built multi level flats

till then, i think the quickest relief is to get some odonil or burn a lot of oothuvaththis ...

 

[Raji Ram]

Dear Kunjuppu Sir,

I agree that people need to pee and poo! But it is atrocious to use the school compound, when a free public toilet is provided nearby!

But the place is much less stinky now. When we settled in this new house 30 years back (April 1985), all the children residing in the

slum would choose a nice spot very near our compound gate, for doing their business 24 /7, all days! I used to request their mothers

to take them at least a few yards away. Now most of the slum houses have toilets. The present nuisance is by the passers by - mostly

cab and auto drivers! Wonder what is so special here!