Ah, luxury! A toilet in your home
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An estimated 14,450 residents in Qibao Town don’t have plumbed toilet facilities in their homes. That means they have to walk to nearby toilets or use chamber pots that need emptying every day.
An 80-year-old grandmother surnamed Yang finds the situation especially difficult because of her age. She and her husband empty their chamber pot in a public disposal site five minutes’ walk away.
“There is a strict timetable for dumping the waste,” she said. “It’s open from 6-9am and again at 4-6pm,” Yang said. “If I am a few minutes late, I have to take the pot back home with me.”
It embarrasses her, she said, to have to walk in a crowded town area, carrying a chamber pot.
“There are more people about on weekends,” she said. “Imagine how embarrassed I feel, especially if I have to queue up outside the disposal place.”
But things are changing. The government has issued a “toilet revolution” policy to rectify the lack of household toilets. On a street-by-street basis, renovation work is being undertaken. It also includes improvements in electricity and sewage connections.
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