Do They Know It Is World Toilet Day?
We at the Seattle Weekly hope that you are enjoying World Toilet Day. But as we bask in the recumbent ease offered by indoor plumbing, experts are warning that our “flush and forget” lifestyle is threatening the very ecosystem we are a part of.
Each year billions of gallons of irreplaceable water goes down the crapper, never to return, simply because Americans are too lazy to use a ditch that they have dug in their backyards.
This is water that salmon and nutria and nessiteras rhombopteryx and salamanders need for basic survival.
The United States only has five percent of the Earth’s population. Yet we use 38 percent of the world’s flushable water. With an aging population and an increasing dependency on soy and bran-based diets that number is expected to rise to 47 percent by 2020.
Being an expert on the subject, clearly something needs to be done to curb this “flush and forget” trend before our environment goes down the drain. (As a child I loved flushing so much that I decided to get a degree in toilet studies at the University of Washington.)
A new administration is set to rule in the White House. It is time to lobby President soon-to-be-Elect Barack Obama to impose strict cap-and-trade measures in an attempt to limit the industrialized world’s monopoly on flushable water.
Until then, the public needs to educate themselves on the subject while attempting to limit the number of times you use the can. Just remember, twice a week is nice.
Extra: And for you Eurocentric naysayers who say that actually yesterday, Nov. 19, was World Toilet Day, my response is, like Earth Day, I believe in making it World Toilet Day, every day.
1 comment(s)
hinweis says:
Interesting mention of cap & trade. Could be one way Obama, and our own state version of Dear Leader, generate revenue to bridge the budget gap.
Posted On: Thursday, Nov. 20 2008 @ 5:22PM