Ah, luxury! A toilet in your home
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An estimated 14,450 residents in Qibao Town don鈥檛 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鈥 walk away.
鈥淭here is a strict timetable for dumping the waste,鈥 she said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 open from 6-9am and again at 4-6pm,鈥 Yang said. 鈥淚f I am a few minutes late, I have to take the pot back home with me.鈥
It embarrasses her, she said, to have to walk in a crowded town area, carrying a chamber pot.
鈥淭here are more people about on weekends,鈥 she said. 鈥淚magine how embarrassed I feel, especially if I have to queue up outside the disposal place.鈥
But things are changing. The government has issued a 鈥渢oilet revolution鈥 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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