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Article #651Re: OT: Only in America
From: Rich Grise
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:41
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:41
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On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:46:47 -0800, Greegor wrote: >> For people who happen to live in areas without a proper sewage system, a >> "honey-wagon" is truck that goes around and collects human excreta. >> >> The US doesn't like spending money on services that improve the health >> of the community as a whole, so many communities persist with this >> rather primitive form of sewage collection, which has long been >> superseded in other advanced industrialised countries. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesspool_emptier >> >> Advanced industrial communites do still have honey waggons, but they >> service temporary and mobile toilets, and there are not enough of them >> to make the word part of the active vocabulary of the bulk of the >> population. > > Sloman, septic tanks are commonly used for homes that are some distance > outside of metro or city services. > > Are you pretending that every home between Nijmegen and Amsterdam is > plumbed into a city sewer system? > > Even in Australia there must be rural homes outside of the range of city > sewer systems. > > What kind of high tech civilized poop chute do they use in rural parts of > Netherlands or Australia? > > Don't they use septic tanks? Don't forget drain fields. I have a dream of a house out in the booines with a drain field with crops planted over it. Cheers! Rich
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