Very soon a day will come when you are in a restaurant and the order is taking a wee bit long, you will find yourself in the men’s room and see a disaster. The toilet will have a flushing issue. The waste would be spilled all over the floor. You would see the customers leaving ground zero in a rush. The restaurant owner would not even be aware of it. The customers would lose all inspiration to eat or to order food.
The natural intuition would be to hold the restaurant owner responsible. What is it with these people and why cannot they at least have a clean toilet? But if you react this way, it would be unfair. The hidden hand behind this unsanitary calamity would be the BMC. The true origin of the mess would not be when you arrived at the toilet, but an ‘act’ which would have passed a long time back. With the ongoing environmental hysteria, an act would be passed – mandatory; all toilet tanks sold in the city limits of Mumbai use not more than 5 litres of water per flush. This act will be a devastating setback in the progress of civilization. I have not done my research so I would not be able to say how much water does a conventional toilet hold. Perhaps 10 litres? This new law may be enforced with fines and imprisonment!
Very soon you will have a thriving black market for toilet tanks and a profitable smuggling operation would come into effect. In any case we would become like the good old Union of Soviet Socialist Republic with a dramatic reduction in our standard of living (not that it is high now). We are already accustomed to bare rooms, long queues, poor dental care, garbage, filth, stray dogs, dogs’ poop, slums, beggars, noise pollution, water shortages and dry taps, power failure, adulterated milk, blood, water, fruits and vegetables, corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, municipal staffs, police and court, rising prices making basic necessities transform into luxurious, stress, negligible to overcrowded public transport,
It has been observed & experienced: Let enough time pass and people forget things. We get used to things
One of our greatest cultural and civilization achievement was our ability to solve the problem of human waste. Once upon a time toilets were outside the house. Today everyone assumes them to be a part of life. Toilets are attached to your sleeping area. This has been a sign of prosperity, well being, creative power and economic progress.
Human individuals achieved something with the innovation of waste disposal. The Govt. entered, intervened and took it away from us. These BMC acts will therefore take us a step backward from mankind’s objective to dispose human waste in the best possible way
Maybe some people just get their dose of kicks out of multiplying misery and making it impossible for the common people to enjoy a clean and prosperous life. These people think that there is virtue in suffering and would like to see everyone going through their quota.
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