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Others on here will be more knowledgeable on the matter of course but over the past 40 years I've spent a fair amount of time travelling around Cyprus and staying in villages, various. During all that I can't honestly recall anyone having an outside loo. Or lacking what we consider basic utilities. I doubt you've wandered much beyond the confines of Limassol for a very long time.
Russia's in the global top 10 for lack of things for its population like domestic toilets and household running water. Between Indonesia and Bangladesh. That, whilst Mr Putin's spending $140 billion a year on his military, in order to pursue his vain glorious dreams of a Peter the Great destiny.
FYI:
Between 1994, when we first moved into our villa and 2001, I had 2-3 week holidays every 3 months as that was my leave cycle whilst working. We covered Cyprus from Pomos to Cape Greco and most of the towns and villages in between. Many of the roads that are tarmac now were dirt roads in those days. We did it all in a Jaguar XJ6 that we bought from the UK and, on several occasions the locals had to move their chairs out of the road so we could get through. We had many encounters and invite’s to join them for a drink and even a meal, although I will admit I didn’t make a habit of inspecting the sanitary facilities as you appear to have done, but then I was never a Janitor so I had no interest in toilets!
So you are wrong again and ’what-you-think’ has become your real world and nothing other than your usual self opinion which you seem to regard as being infallible!
Russia's in the global top 10 for lack of things for its population like domestic toilets and household running water. Between Indonesia and Bangladesh. That, whilst Mr Putin's spending $140 billion a year on his military, in order to pursue his vain glorious dreams of a Peter the Great
A short history of Cyprus toilets ...................
Early on (
2001) we met a couple of Brits who had moved into a newly decorated rented village house ........ and it did have an inside toilet and running water. After a few months they started getting the stench of s**t but could not find the source ..... nor could they find the septic tank. They called in the ‘
honey wagon’ and he found the source because he knew what the owners had done.
The house until recently, like most of the properties around them, had originally had the ‘
toilet’ at the bottom of the garden. Basically a hole in the ground, a plank with a hole in it as the seat and a shed round it for privacy........... and they used to put the used paper in a bucket which they collected and burned maybe once a week.
The house modification added an internal toilet ........ and it was plumbed straight into the old ‘
shit-hole’ with no septic tank! They then put a concrete slab over the top with a small (6") hole in it to pump it out when required.
Along come the Brits and carried on just as they do in the UK and flushed all the paper down the toilet ....... as she thought putting the used paper in a bucket was disgusting. The ‘
shit-hole’ filled up in a few weeks because of that. Now you know why most toilets in Cyprus still have a bucket for used toilet paper? Old habits take a long time to die !
Virtually all the toilets in the villages were the same and were altered over time. Then they realised that they worked better with a septic tank. So the fact you didn’t see any outside toilets was because you had no knowledge of the history of the Island as it had been for centuries.
I would suggest that given the massive land mass know as Russia, there will be thousands of remote communities that have yet to catch up with the sanitary facilities of the 20th Century ...... let alone the 21st Century,........... but I’ll bet the younger generation still use the outside toilet ...... where they can sit down and use their I-Phone in comfort!
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