My Ethical Qualms With The Toilet

reused. At this time 99% of the solids in the water are removed and various

To address this issue, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NYS DEC have recently increased their attention to stormwater management. Explicitly requiring permits for municipalities in New York State that are located near urbanized areas, and have their storm sewer system separate from their sanitary sewer systems. Unlike municipalities with combined sewer systems, an MS4 discharges untreated stormwater directly into the nearest body of water. This type of system can be detrimental for numerous reasons and has ultimately resulted in the EPA’s creation of a federal regulation known as the Stormwater Phase II. It was published in the Federal Register on December 8, 1999 and has since effected every MS4 community in New York State (US EPA, 2005).

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) described the general treatment of wastewater and its two basic stages, primary and secondary. In the primary treatment most solids are caught in a screen, then the sewage goes to a grit chamber to settle small pieces of debris at the bottom, then through the sedimentation tank. Afterwards, secondary treatment removes a majority of the organic matter, eventually being chlorinated before reaching an effluent (EPA, 1998).

“The first flush toilet was invented in 1596... by John Harrington, by 1890 the public began to be aware of the infectious diseases carried by improperly disposed urine/feces”. However, nowadays we don't have to worry about those problems because somebody made an invention to stop us from having diseases and be able to have a so fairly life.Hopefully we as people can still do things to better our society around the whole entire world.

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.

Beginning in the late 1990’s the city realized the importance of stormwater management and initiated the necessary steps to identify and minimalize the adverse effects of inadequate drainage infrastructure. Although the city had adopted stormwater regulations for new development, older developments and roadways in the city were not regulated prior to 1984 and many of those drainage systems

Untreated wastewater is dumped into

In Seattle, there are three types of sewer systems: Combined Sewer, Partially Seperated Storn Sewer, and Seperated Strorm Sewer. In these three, the best way of sewer and stormwater managment is the last one to separate storm and sewer. This is because, if the dirty water and stormwater

Not only was access to clean water was a problem across industrial cities in the mid-19th century, so was the issue of wastewater. There was a concern with wastewater and how it needed to be disposed of. Joel Tarr argued that the lack of treatment of wastewater in Pittsburgh households and industries, as well as stormwater, became a nuisance. Household wastes and wastewater were usually placed in cesspools and privy vaults and

The sewer system would collect water from baths, latrines (a public pay toilet), palaces, fountain, and other urban runoff (Hasan). From here, the sewers would flow through town to either the nearest river or to out onto fields for irrigating and fertilizing soil (Wikander 176, 655). However not every Roman citizen could afford the cost of a bath or bathroom in their house, so they would be forced to either use a latrine or a chamber pot (Hasan). A latrine was a public pay toilet and a chamber pot was a pot where bodily excretions went (Hasan). The chamber pot became a problem as most people became too lazy to properly empty them, so they dumped the chamber pot out of the window. With this problem rising, the Romans decided to use an open sewer system as well with the regular sewer system (Wikander 168). The open sewer system is exactly how it sounds, it’s an open sewer where sewage runs through town to the nearest disposal sight. This helped with the disposal of the chamber buckets. Later an emperor named Vespasian came up with the idea to collect all the urine (Hasan). Vespasian had discovered that the ammonia in urine had cleaning properties, so he collected the urine to wash clothes

They often require multiple flushes which completely undermines any efficiency they claimed to have offered. Modern low-flow toilets no longer experience this problem and flush efficiently.

A garbage disposal is used to grind food scraps into tiny pieces, making is easier to dispose of and process the waste. When you have a septic system, the pieces of food are flushed down the drain, into your system.

The Lou, thunderbox, porcelain throne, and John are a few words used to describe the toilet. In America, people take the toilet for granted…I mean they literally crap on it. Over half of the world’s population lives in undeveloped countries without access to basic amenities necessary for daily life. Most Americans don’t think about where anybody else goes to answer nature’s call. Why is that? Is it because it’s gross? Uncomfortable? Or irrelevant? I feel the answer is a combination of all these factors. Americans don’t think about the right to a toilet because they have not been educated on the relevancy of matter. People find the subject taboo because defecation is such personal bodily function. India is a prime example of this toilet phenomena

With best rated toilets, the water carried the waste to the end in only with one flush. But poor quality toilets require more flushes even after pressing multiple times.

Wastewater treatment is classified as primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment; this is the process of how wastewater actually becomes recycled water. The