Comments on: India’s Big Challenge: How To Stop Public from Relieving in the Open http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 05:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Maggie's Farm http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/comment-page-1/#comment-103995 Maggie's Farm Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:16:39 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/education/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/#comment-103995 <strong>Monday Morning/Sunday Night Links...</strong> From today's Carnival of the Insanities:7. Leave Hillary alone! Because she'll either get really pissed and play the gender card; or develop a case of the "vapors"!Since when do Bill and Hillary live together? Not since the White House, I'... Monday Morning/Sunday Night Links…

From today’s Carnival of the Insanities:7. Leave Hillary alone! Because she’ll either get really pissed and play the gender card; or develop a case of the "vapors"!Since when do Bill and Hillary live together? Not since the White House, I’…

]]> By: Around The Sphere Blogging Roundup Nov. 4, 2007 » The Moderate Voice http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/comment-page-1/#comment-103977 Around The Sphere Blogging Roundup Nov. 4, 2007 » The Moderate Voice Sun, 04 Nov 2007 22:08:18 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/education/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/#comment-103977 [...] on one of the lists. Shouldn’t he have been at the Toilet Summit in India? (Be SURE to read the post on that by TMVer Swaraaj Chauhan from [...] [...] on one of the lists. Shouldn’t he have been at the Toilet Summit in India? (Be SURE to read the post on that by TMVer Swaraaj Chauhan from [...]

]]> By: Meaghan http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/comment-page-1/#comment-103976 Meaghan Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:56:07 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/education/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/#comment-103976 A few weeks ago I was sitting in a waiting room when I caught a radio news item that India hoped to make its manned moon landing in 2009. I nearly fell off my chair. I had not realized that India still pursued the space program it started 40 years ago. And the moon no less. What the devil does the moon have to offer the earthly sovereign state of India other than a perma-breeze U.S. flag, abandoned space trash and a drop-dead view of Planet Earth? Then I read about India's sanitation challenges and the World Toilet Summit. That's it! The moon as earth's overflow latrine. I KNEW there had to be a sane, practical rationale beind India's space aspirations. Whew! Of course India would not choose to expend an obscene amount of its resources on an empty, self-aggrandizing emulation of the last century's space race post-pissing. A few weeks ago I was sitting in a waiting room when I caught a radio news item that India hoped to make its manned moon landing in 2009. I nearly fell off my chair.

I had not realized that India still pursued the space program it started 40 years ago. And the moon no less. What the devil does the moon have to offer the earthly sovereign state of India other than a perma-breeze U.S. flag, abandoned space trash and a drop-dead view of Planet Earth?

Then I read about India’s sanitation challenges and the World Toilet Summit. That’s it! The moon as earth’s overflow latrine. I KNEW there had to be a sane, practical rationale beind India’s space aspirations.

Whew! Of course India would not choose to expend an obscene amount of its resources on an empty, self-aggrandizing emulation of the last century’s space race post-pissing.

]]> By: Joe Gandelman http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/comment-page-1/#comment-103956 Joe Gandelman Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:01:16 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/education/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/#comment-103956 I've written a lot of crappy posts on TMV but I've never written about a Toilet Summit. Shouldn't this have been held in Flushing, NY? Actually, this is a very serious issue. I spent a total of just over two years living, studying and eventually writing from India (where I met Swaraaj) and sanitation is a big issue. The difference is that now that India has benefited from globalization, issues such as making a dent on sanitation concerns are seen as eventually attainable..or at least close to where a serious start can be made on them. When I was there as a student interning on the Hindustan Times in 1972 and as a reporter from Sept. 1973-May 1975 this kind of issue was considered something academics would sit around and discuss but the money was not there and reality looked a long way off. Today it can be seriously discussed. That's because India today is indeed on the path that thoughfful and hopeful academics talked about in the early to mid 70s. I’ve written a lot of crappy posts on TMV but I’ve never written about a Toilet Summit. Shouldn’t this have been held in Flushing, NY?

Actually, this is a very serious issue. I spent a total of just over two years living, studying and eventually writing from India (where I met Swaraaj) and sanitation is a big issue. The difference is that now that India has benefited from globalization, issues such as making a dent on sanitation concerns are seen as eventually attainable..or at least close to where a serious start can be made on them. When I was there as a student interning on the Hindustan Times in 1972 and as a reporter from Sept. 1973-May 1975 this kind of issue was considered something academics would sit around and discuss but the money was not there and reality looked a long way off. Today it can be seriously discussed. That’s because India today is indeed on the path that thoughfful and hopeful academics talked about in the early to mid 70s.

]]> By: Joerg Wolf http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/comment-page-1/#comment-103945 Joerg Wolf Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:09:50 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/education/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/#comment-103945 @ Jilly Dybka I wonder how much water would be saved, if toilets would use only as much water for flushing as is really necessary. I think, the developing world should not set up western-style toilets. At least not those that waste so much water. Perhaps the good folks of Atlanta should use traditional Indian-style squat toilets....? @ Jilly Dybka
I wonder how much water would be saved, if toilets would use only as much water for flushing as is really necessary.

I think, the developing world should not set up western-style toilets. At least not those that waste so much water.

Perhaps the good folks of Atlanta should use traditional Indian-style squat toilets….?

]]> By: Jilly Dybka http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/comment-page-1/#comment-103944 Jilly Dybka Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:46:51 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/education/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/#comment-103944 This brings to mind the water problems the Southeastern US is having because of the extreme drought. Can you imagine if Atlanta DID run out of water? Ew. This brings to mind the water problems the Southeastern US is having because of the extreme drought.

Can you imagine if Atlanta DID run out of water?

Ew.

]]> By: Rudi http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/comment-page-1/#comment-103940 Rudi Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:51:43 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/education/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/#comment-103940 Lynx - I witnessed public urination in Germany while traveling there. Many "los" on the rural Autobahn are just walls. Lynx – I witnessed public urination in Germany while traveling there. Many “los” on the rural Autobahn are just walls.

]]> By: Lynx http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/comment-page-1/#comment-103938 Lynx Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:14:09 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/education/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/#comment-103938 It's the sort of thing those of us in the west never ever think about, like electricity or running water. It lends itself to a lot of toilet humor (ejem) but it's an important subject, bad sanitation is a very important source of disease, and more so in a tropical country. More than the toilets themselves, I would think the really expensive thing is disposing of the waste. Someone has to collect and process the waste somehow, and it's probably much harder in a third world country that doesn't have plumbing that automatically takes waste to processing plants. It’s the sort of thing those of us in the west never ever think about, like electricity or running water. It lends itself to a lot of toilet humor (ejem) but it’s an important subject, bad sanitation is a very important source of disease, and more so in a tropical country.

More than the toilets themselves, I would think the really expensive thing is disposing of the waste. Someone has to collect and process the waste somehow, and it’s probably much harder in a third world country that doesn’t have plumbing that automatically takes waste to processing plants.

]]> By: Joerg Wolf http://themoderatevoice.com/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/comment-page-1/#comment-103936 Joerg Wolf Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:54:09 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/education/15916/indias-big-challenge-how-to-stop-public-from-relieving-in-the-open/#comment-103936 Looking on the bright side: If you relieve yourself in the open, you won't get into trouble like Larry Craig did. :-) Looking on the bright side: If you relieve yourself in the open, you won’t get into trouble like Larry Craig did. :-)

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