[konart]

Flush toilet requires your private house to be connected to a centralized communications OR to your personal water pumps.

#1 is not an option if you leave far away from a town.

#2 is not an option unless you can pay for it and its maintance.

I understand that this sound like a problem or some savagery but in reality this is not much different from the fact that most countries do not have centralized hot water or heating.

My summer house also does not have a flush toilet despite the fact that I can easily afford one. What's the problem?

[cpursley]

Check this persons posts, they're 90% anti-Russian. No amount of factual or anecdotal information is going to change their attitude.

I've had the same shitty (pun intended) toilet argument on HN with other Russophobs and there's just no reaching these people seething with racial hate.

[thc-27182]

"Located less than 200 kilometers south of Moscow, the industrial city of Tula is home to around 549,992 people. And about a fifth of them have no access to centralized sewage systems."

From the first link in my previous comment.

Just bringing data to whether or not Russia is well equipped with flush toilets (or really more the point public sanitation).

From a public health standpoint, human waste reaching rivers tend not to be good.

"Untreated human sewage teems with salmonella, hepatitis, dysentery, cryptosporidium, and many other infectious diseases."

https://www.americanrivers.org/threats-solutions/clean-water...

[cpursley]

60 million people in America are on septic systems (non-centralized sewage systems that leech into the ground):

https://www.growingblue.com/septic-or-sewer/#:~:text=Septics....

[thc-27182]

https://www.epa.gov/septic/types-septic-systems

They're generally sanitary (when maintained) and are a whole septic system. And are attached to flush toilets.

That's massively different than raw sewage making it to streams and rivers.

However none of this really matters because the point is that many rural Russians lack access to water and proper sewage (apparently as laid out in the above previous links). So politely you're wrong. Have a good day.

[konart]

>Located less than 200 kilometers south of Moscow, the industrial city of Tula is home to around 549,992 people. And about a fifth of them have no access to centralized sewage systems.

I really doubt about 1/5 but yes, sure, some parts of Tula look like this: https://st05.realtymag.ru/1911/2023-03-31/0/2101217236877371... basically a village with no connection to Tula's centralized sewage system.

>From a public health standpoint, human waste reaching rivers tend not to be good.

It doesn't in most cases. It goes into a hole. By the time it reaches river via ground waters there is literally no problem.