{"id":156,"date":"2007-11-23T08:32:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T08:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2007-11-23T08:32:50","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T08:32:50","slug":"world-toilet-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"World toilet day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.questasia.org\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/11\/22\/wtoday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"30\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/images\/2007\/11\/22\/wtoday.png\" title=\"Wtoday\" alt=\"Wtoday\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMat told me that last Monday was the world toilet day. I know that sounds a little strange. But since I build and helped with building toilets in several villages I thought I post it here. In the villages we work many people don&#8217;t have toilets. On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldtoilet.org\/\">webpage of the world toilet organization<\/a> I found the following: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;International statistics (WHO and UNICEF 2000; WHO and UNICEF 2004) indicates that over 2.6 billion people in the world today are without any form of &quot;improved sanitation&quot;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I know for most people in the West (at least I know in Switzerland) don&#8217;t think about sewage and toilets. It is already developed and regulated. In the mountains if there are toilets there are often shared with a many people. Somehow like a public toilet. In the way villages develop it seems toilets is the last thing people think about. I mean there is the forest or the field that needs fertilizer. When it comes to the urban settings there are no fields or forests and sewage becomes a huge problem. So a world toilet day is not the worst thing to have. Let us remember, not everybody can sit down with the newspaper or have a time out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mat told me that last Monday was the world toilet day. I know that sounds a little strange. But since I build and helped with building toilets in several villages I thought I post it here. In the villages we work many people don&#8217;t have toilets. On the webpage of the world toilet organization I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}