RE: Public Toilet Strategies
July 4, 2015 at 10:27 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2015 at 10:39 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 4, 2015 at 9:58 pm)Exian Wrote: I think places like India have the right idea.
You don't have to touch anything, and you won't get splash back. The many port-a-potties at all my job sites are frequently clean, which is almost worse. There's nothing stopping the splash back.
if you ever tried to use a public squat pit latrine, you would know they don't have the right idea. Leaving aside the ergonomic issues and psychological appeal of placing your eye level that much closer to piss stained grout on the filthy tiled floor, you still have the problem of the absence of water cover for the contents of pit means the public toilets in east Asia always smell worse than open sewer on a very hot day.
There is a reason why as Asian economies develop, they often regard it as a milestone the passing of which is to be proud of when most of the squat toilets in their public latrines have been replaced with western throne style toilets.
In China, people pay to use public restrooms with western throne style toilets when those with squat types are free.