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>Setting it up in India

What a waste, no one's going to use it

>>340511

All jokes aside india really does have a sanitation problem which needs to be solved.

And honestly this isnt a solution but a showboating exercise in what a luxury toilet could be in the future.

India cannot afford and doesn't need this toilet,what it needs is something better than people being forced to lay a turd on a public street in the 21 century.

a basic design is whats needed not some technological branding of something as a premium product.

The reason regular toilets arent regualrly built in india is that they are too expensive, so why build a complicated model that will be even more expensive?

The same reason bill gates said everyone needs to be vaccinated against polio but the slums of india are the future model for the world.

polio is caused by dirty water and the medical industry loses out if they dont need to make as much medicine against it.

same as the did with homosexuals and PReP.

PReP guards against hiv infection in doctors and nurses originally,then it was used to cure people for possible exposure to HIV, FINALLY IT IS NOW USED AS A DAILY PILL AGAINST HIV SO GAYS DONT HAVE TO USE CONDOMS.

Just as the hiv drug combination's patent is starting to run out they try to decrease is effectiveness by using it as a AIDS condom for barebacking fags.

Its all too obvious.

If it was cheaper it would actually be a good idea. I wonder how much your typical shit generates in revenue for fertilizer and power? You could incentivize poo in loo-ers by paying them to shit in the toilets.

Just don't, you know, get swallowed by one anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lce-Nwh8fK8

If it was cheaper it would actually be a good idea. I wonder how much your typical shit generates in revenue for fertilizer and power? You could incentivize poo in loo-ers by paying them to shit in the toilets.

>>340725

Maybe if you had massive amounts of them installed *everywhere*. The capital outlay would be YUGE even for just the largest cities in India.

Till then this is little more than just a publicity stunt–it doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of a scratch on the surface of the problem.

>>340780

And a nationwide ad campaign would also be needed to a) train people how to use them (see >>340658), b) understand how they work and why so ppl wouldn't turn them into shrines to try and appease the witches that live inside there.

It would have to be literally a major (read: years-long) national effort to move the people in the direction needed.

>>340553

Lmao. Yes they will. Apparently the South of India is better overall when it comes to litter & toilets. I've been living in Bangalore for over a year now(I'm American), and have yet to see anyone openly shitting. And I was on the train last week talking to a Tamil woman, who went on kind of an epic rant about how Northerners disrespect the land, shit openly & just throw trash with no regard because "It's not their job to clean it up".

I plan on going to Kerala. If I see it, I'll try it out & report back. :)

>>340557

>The same reason bill gates said everyone needs to be vaccinated against polio but the slums of india are the future model for the world.

>polio is caused by dirty water and the medical industry loses out if they dont need to make as much medicine against it.

Is the Gates foundation known for doing good work here?

I was on a train recently & saw a healthy, younger woman limping in a local village outside, and pointing her out to my fiance(he's Indian), I said it looks like she hurt her foot. He told me no, she's got polio. Holy shit. I didn't even know what caused polio, I have to look it up. And I have to contact my parents to make sure I've been vaccinated, I'm thinking I have since I'm American.

It was just another reality check for me. India's been great so far, that's just one of the crazy things I've seen while here. Governments have a national day where they give out polio drops, which is good, but I guess it could be better. I thought maybe you could catch it through contact with an infected person, that's how little I know about it.

I have some vaccinations I need to get.. Asap.

>>340633

Unfortunately in some places, you have to pay to use toilets. I was at a railway station in Chennai I believe, and had to pay 15 rupees to use the toilets, I was very surprised by that. Especially at a government toilet, they should be ashamed of that.

>>340853

>so ppl wouldn't turn them into shrines to try and appease the witches that live inside there.

I read that bs story. They're not turning them into shrines. They're having a puja(like a prayer session with rituals) to show their appreciation for the gift of a toilet in a new village. But to foreigners it looks weird, like they're worshipping it. They're not.

>It would have to be literally a major (read: years-long) national effort to move the people in the direction needed.

I was recently talking to someone about this. In the US during the early 90s, we had country dumps everywhere. They had a long campaign & stiffened & enforced littering laws. It took some 5-8 years, I'd say, but barely anyone dumps now. They're stiff penalties & we understand the impact it has on our land now. That Native American crying commercial was around that time.

You're right. Indians need some long campaign to combat this.

>>340557

Seems like the easiest way to solve it would be to use prison labor to clean up the sewer ducts that always seem clogged and put metal grates over them so people cant fill them with trash, as for treating the sewage instead of dumping they need to divert sewage from ducts to open air oxidation ponds which are cheap and easy to build but not as efficient or clean as other systems, but that's a problem for later and it would still be much fucking cleaner than now.

>>341491

>I was recently talking to someone about this. In the US during the early 90s, we had country dumps everywhere. They had a long campaign & stiffened & enforced littering laws. It took some 5-8 years, I'd say, but barely anyone dumps now. They're stiff penalties & we understand the impact it has on our land now. That Native American crying commercial was around that time.

I still see them constantly in parts of GA and FL.

>>340725

It would be a lot fucking cheaper to build better infrastructure and just capture methane at sewage treatment plants that building tons of techno porta-potties

>>341499

>I still see them constantly in parts of GA and FL.

Really? I live in KY & used to see them the most when I visit family in Western KY. I don't see them anymore. It's very rare. They really cracked down with crazy fines if they caught you dumping. Now it's at least very frowned upon instead of the norm. But during my childhood it was almost weirdly nostalgic to see them, since they were such a part of the culture. I still love junkyards. Lots of good memories going to get car parts with my dad.

That's unfortunate for GA & FL. Florida I could understand, lmao. People don't want to change as easily.

>It would be a lot fucking cheaper to build better infrastructure

Seriously. I walk down the sidewalk here in Bangalore & have almost fell down holes. Talk about a wake up call to where I am now. The sidewalks are basically just hug concrete slabs, one after another, and there's usually a hole/space under them, so if they're damaged, you can fall in.

>>341504

lived in KY*. It's my home but I'm not there atm.

>>341504

Its pretty common among unfinished housing projects as a lot of areas here never recovered from the 08 crash and there's a lot of empty construction sites with roads built but no houses, you see a lot along unpaved utility roads too.

>>341514

Damn, now I'm sad. That sucks.

The market crash hit us all hard. It's crazy how everyone seems to act like they don't remember it, too. That's why I'm voting for Bernie, but that's a whole nother topic.

We have some of those unfinished neighborhoods in KY as well. It's weird to see them. I remember the days when real estate was booming, sadly not any more.