Describe An American Toilet

Bathrooms are filthy. They are dirty, dirty porcelain wastelands swarming with harmful bacteria and human waste. And they’re one in all Quentin Tarantino’s favorite equipment to apply on the big screen. If one have been to have a look at the records of American media, he or she may additionally be aware that bathrooms are scarcely pictured. In truth, it wasn’t until the 1960 launch of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho that a toilet was proven in cinema. The featured lavatory triggered pretty a stir among critics, and became a symbol of American ethics. Quentin recognized the challenge of morality that resided within the use of lavatories and used it to his advantage. In his 1994 release, Pulp Fiction, Quentin often makes use of the rest room to

In the article, “ Modern Marvels” by John Loocrapper, it conveys the history of toilets and toilet paper along with how they are made. In the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro located in present day Pakistan, they had the most advanced plumbing system of the world. It was very important to drain the sewage out of the cities so the smell would not cover a vast part of their area and they did just so. These devices have changed from then but most of the concepts that were created are still in use today. This piece of literature supports the claim how a toilet is made, the history of toilet also known as the evolution, and the background of toilet paper.

One of the cultural challenges that company is facing is soiled toilet paper scattered or piled all over the plant’s bathroom floors. In Mexico and other Latin American countries, the sewer or wastes pipes leading from the building are usually small in diameter compared with U.S. standards. In

In the United States we forget the privilege that we have to be able to use a toilet. Rose George expressed the privilege in the quote, “He thought that I thought a toilet was my right, when he knew it was a privilege. It must be, when 2.6 billion people don’t have sanitation(George 2).” Why is it important to have sanitation you may ask, “ The disease toll of this is stunning. A gram of feces can contain 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts, and 100 worm eggs (George 2).” It is important because having sanitation system to help improve the health of the people in the society. In the book, The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World Of Human Waste and Why It Matters, bring to light many issues in the world sanitation

All human beings have to go to the restroom, and each day of their live. Though has anyone wonder about the strange encounters in the restroom. Deartra D. Madkins-Boone writes a short story to describe her journey to the and in the restroom titled “Strange Encounters of the Restroom Kind.” Madkins has misses a bowel movement and her stomach continuously makes noises. Ignoring the sounds of her stomach she drives and goes to eat tacos. Even while she is eating at the restaurant her stomach continues to make noise and while driving back home she realizes that she urgently needs to use the restroom. Madkins barely makes it to the restroom of the library, and in the restroom stool her stomach makes a great deal of noise. Madkins is highly embarrassed by this and hopes no one hears her. Though to her dismay when she comes out of the restroom, she finds a teen laughing at her. The teen had waited to see the person that was

Before sanitation the world was full of endless diseases that would spread within days throughout an area. The plague for example was supported by unorganized sewage and waste disposal, otherwise known as a window. Streets were filled with trash, rotten food, and rubbish that attracted fleas and rodents who carried out the disease. Without proper sanitation the world as we know it would be wretched. Who is responsible for this sanitation? It is obviously not the general public, for we refuse to chase down a napkin that has been stolen by the breeze, or reuse an empty water bottle. We as humans that have been raised in the day in age always knowing that the loud garbage truck will come rolling through our neighborhood and the men drooping on the side of it will jump down, empty our bin, and we will never see the waste again. The part of the puzzle most of us seem to ignore is the fact that there is no magical wasteland that we send the trash off to. It is always accumulating, yet we cease to approach the problem with a resolution.

In her article What’s the Poop on Ancient Toilets and Toilet Habits?, Jodi Magness main purpose is to demonstrate to the reader the differences between ancient and modern civilizations’ attitudes toward what is socially acceptable involving toilet habits. Magness then gives examples of public latrines in the ancient world and unsanitary they would seem to modern man.

Where would we be without the toilet? It’s a common fixture in every modern building. Some call it the latrine, the privy, the water closet, the lavatory, the head, the john, the loo, or even the crapper. Contrary to popular urban legend, the toilet WAS NOT invented by Sir Thomas Crapper. Although, it seems Thomas Crapper was a plumber and he was an inventor – linguists still debate whether the word ‘crap’ originates from this man’s name.

The living conditions of the villages in India are a direct example of classism and a caste system within Indian society. Throughout the movie, images flash on the screen showing pollution of the water sources and streets. Every home in the villages are virtually connected to each other. This closeness spreads disease easily and with the unsanitary conditions, many die as a result. The water that the Indian people clean their clothes and themselves with, is the same water they put all their waste in. In one of Jamal’s flashbacks, the viewer sees a scene where his brother, Salim, locks him in one of their outhouses or more like shacks that they relieve themselves in. Jamal’s favorite actor was going through the village and he wanted an autograph badly enough that he jumped out of the outhouse into the pile of poop and who knows what that was from the shack. This scene is a perfect illustration showing the lack of infrastructure and necessary systems in place to take care of the things we never think about as Americans. We simply push a button or pull a knob and our waste is flushed to a place that we do not know and frankly, do not care. As Americans, we know that the waste will be handled and we need not worry about it because we do not have to. Along with the infrastructure, there is no real access to education in the country. There is one scene in the movie where Jamal and his brother Salim go to a classroom but all we see is Jamal getting hit with a book by the teacher.

For example, growing up in a farmer’s family in a small village in China, we did not have a restroom in the house. Every day after dinner my neighbor Soey and I would walk two minutes to the neighborhood public restroom. It was built with dark grey bricks, no doors, consisted of no toilet paper, and could only be occupied by four people at a time. However, I found the restroom trip to be enjoyable because it was the only free time I had where I could catch up with friends after a long day of school. Sometimes we even had a couple of other neighborhood friends go with us just so we could all hangout. Even in present day China, mostly in older rural areas, some of those public restrooms are still in use. At night, we had this vase shaped container with a light in the house that we could use rather than walk to the public restroom. My parents cleaned it out every morning. It was not until I was ten years old that we finally had a restroom in the house.

PeePoo’s creator is Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect and professor. It is omni present in Kenya, Nigeria and Bangladesh as a sanitation business as a substitute for toilets. Peepoo recognises that merely building toilets is not enough and making people use the toilet is of critical importance. It is the behaviour intention that diffuses an innovative product. It must be applicable in slums where sanitation is absent.

Dry toilet systems were presented as innovative technology sanitation system in the project applied in Chorrillos sector. The scale of the project is local and small, and centralized as regards as the origin of the funds and experts which are part of the government health institutions with low participation of end users. Dry toilet systems have high separated water flows because their infrastructure separate urine and fecal feces in different containers without connection to sewage systems, however end user participation is high because of the different tasks to compose fecal feces.

This costs around 300 Rupees per month if you use the bathroom around three times a day which unrealistic because most people use the bathroom at least 3-4 times a day. Now, it would be ridiculously hard for these people to afford using a toilet as almost one million people in Mumbai earn only 600 rupees per month.How would the people be able to pay for their children’s education or for day-to-day food needs when they end up spending half their income on using a bathroom?Instead, if they had a bathroom inside their house they would save all this money and use it for a better purpose.For example an essential need of all living things, water.A can of water usually costs 20 Rupees.But on some unfortunate days, the price goes up to a whopping 40 Rupees.This is two times more than the average daily income of a lot of citizens in Mumbai.Not only do these water prices rise, but during some summers the municipal corporation cuts off any possible water supply going to the slum residents.Imagine a day without absolutely no water. It would be a disaster, as water is an essential need and we use for many day-to-day activities.Because everyone needs water, people in the government have started to make promises to these slum residents. For example, during an election each party promise water in exchange for a

Within this assignment I will be providing an overview of the main health issues that are still affecting India today. I will examine their historical trends and predict the country’s health future in context of global health and social issues. India is dealing with many on-going health issues, one of those being Cholera. It began in the Ganges Delta in South Asia and began to spread, flourishing in poor areas, mainly in the slums (Cholera and the Thames, 2014). Phillips (1990) states that, those that live in these particular areas are faced with the daily challenges of the sewages overflowing, being overcrowded with people and the inadequate availability to have access to clean water. This puts many people at a greater risk of contracting a disease such as Cholera. Although Cholera is water borne and a communicable disease it is also preventable. This disease can cause people to have severe diarrhoea which the body then loses a mass amount of fluids, people then become exceedingly dehydrated which can lead to death. Vibrio cholera or V. Cholera is the bacteria found in Cholera infecting the intestines and causing diarrhoea (Cholera and the Thames, 2014). In 2014, The World Health Organisation (WHO) updated their fact sheet with key facts about Cholera. It was estimated yearly, that about 3 to 5 million people worldwide were affected by Cholera and over 100,000 cases result in death. Cholera is a disease which can affect anyone, like many other colds, viruses, and diseases

“About 7 million Filipinos in 2015 have resorted to open defecation–85% of which are from rural areas without toilet facilities. This poses a threat to the safety of food and quality of drinking water” (WHO, 2016). Although there is a valuable abundance of life and resources, the Philippines is paradoxically afflicted with various complications and barriers to fully access and sustainably use the natural resources available. The lives of Filipinos are thus categorized by an adversity that is persistent throughout the world even with recent progressive developments. “Despite being one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia in recent years, declines in poverty were modest, leaving marginalized groups such as women, children and the elderly vulnerable to hunger and poverty. This rapid economic growth, however, does not necessarily translate to better conditions when combined with other factors such as nutrition and food security” (WFP, 2016). The country is managing to the best of its abilities to concentrate on the underlying issues threatening food security. Of those issues, the most encompassing is the lack of access to clean water and proper sanitation, which debilitates a population’s ability to survive, actively work, and produce food. In attempt to address this issue, strict government enforcement of standards, non-governmental intervention with affordable technology or means of sanitation, and education is necessary for improving the lives Filipinos.