HAPPY WORLD TOILET DAY

Coming from a family full of plumbers I could not resist posting this information on this, World Toilet Day. Al Gore is also celebrating by suggesting we all read Jared Diamond's book Collapse because of his amazing fear that civilization is going down the road of the Mayans (they apparantly suffered a sudden die out). The funny part of that is that his blog is accompanied by a picture of him in his office at his 10,000 square foot Nashville home surrounded by huge messy piles of paper. I am really confused about what he would have us do, exactly.


Anyway, back to the toilets:




Toilet facts:

The average person spends three years of their life on the “john”.
The average person flushes a toilet about 2500 times a year, while using about eight sheets of toilet paper per day.
An estimated 2.6 billion people worldwide do not have access to proper toilet facilities, particularly in rural areas of China and India.
Lack of suitable toilets and sanitation kills approximately 1.8 million people a year, many of them children.
According to Jack Sims, a further 500 million toilets are needed to bridge the gap in sanitation.
The first flushing toilet was invented in 1596 by Sir John Harrington, a British noble and godson to Queen Elizabeth I. He only invented one, as he was ridiculed by his peers, but he still used it for himself.
Most toilets flush in the key of E flat.
On average, a person will use 22 litres of drinkable water every day flushing a toilet.
From an article By Ian Rakowski
NEWS.com.au
November 19, 2008 12:01am