Crashing probes onto the moon is apparently more important, though. Don’t get me wrong: I’m a proponent of space travel but when infrastructure basics aren’t in place, maybe put space exploration on the back burner.
Once upon a time toilets won elections in India, though. Only a few years ago they finished building 110 Million Toilets, bringing some states up to 100% toilet per capita coverage.
I wonder if there’s a natural balance of some kind in the budgetary priorities of democracies, with impractical flashy things making up a small but stable allotment.
Is it common where you live to let poop into the sewage system? Water is a state subject in India, so rules would vary from state to state. But in the ones I’ve lived in, the municipal sewage system is always for grey water (bathwater, kitchen waste, etc.). Toilet waste must go into a septic tank in your own property. Of course, the rules do not apply to slums or other unauthorised buildings.
In the US, in urban areas, the sewage system handles all waste water, and is treated before being reintroduced to waterways. Rural areas, there is no sewage system. Every building without a connection to a sewer has a septic tank.
They really ought to do something about that. That’s 1 billion people’s daily poops going straight into the river/sea
Crashing probes onto the moon is apparently more important, though. Don’t get me wrong: I’m a proponent of space travel but when infrastructure basics aren’t in place, maybe put space exploration on the back burner.
the trouble is that space probes win elections, not water treatment facilities.
Once upon a time toilets won elections in India, though. Only a few years ago they finished building 110 Million Toilets, bringing some states up to 100% toilet per capita coverage.
I wonder if there’s a natural balance of some kind in the budgetary priorities of democracies, with impractical flashy things making up a small but stable allotment.
1.5 actually
I think they were accounting for the percentage in the post; 1.43 billion * .63 = about 900 million people’s waste without any treatment.
Is it common where you live to let poop into the sewage system? Water is a state subject in India, so rules would vary from state to state. But in the ones I’ve lived in, the municipal sewage system is always for grey water (bathwater, kitchen waste, etc.). Toilet waste must go into a septic tank in your own property. Of course, the rules do not apply to slums or other unauthorised buildings.
In the US, in urban areas, the sewage system handles all waste water, and is treated before being reintroduced to waterways. Rural areas, there is no sewage system. Every building without a connection to a sewer has a septic tank.
That’s interesting. I guess our governments just decided that the cost of treating sewage is too high, and so mandated septic tanks instead.