On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:35:58 GMT, "brooklyn1"
wrote:


"Doug Houseman" wrote
What if there is no hose bib connected to mains supply?

Now I know you're not serious.

I am sure in the area you live and work in you are absolutely correct -
this is silly, and that you may even have been in enough other areas to
have built a general rule for why you think this is silly however...

In some areas there are now code requirements that prohibit a hose bib
from being installed on new construction. I just reviewed the new code
for one community in Australia, it was in that code. I have looked at
codes for Morocco

Anustrailia, Morocco... you're not serious... they don't even have indoor
plumbing. I've been to Morocco, they relieve themselves directly into the
street... the raw effluence runs downhill to who knows where. And Morrocans
never heard of TP, and they go from birth to grave never having bathed
either.

I don't know when you were in Morocco and where -- the cities or the
boonies -- Arab country or Berber?

I just came back from a two-week trip based around the Four Imperial
Cities, plus some others. Long bus rides in between, broken by
numerous interesting stops.

Sorry to disappoint you, but I never saw anyone relieve themselves in
the streets. Although our tour stayed in pretty nice -- some very
nice -- hotels, even the little curio shops or restaurants/coffee
shops along the highways had clean restrooms, with soap and TP and all
the usual amenities.

I speak French, so interacted with local people freely. Nobody stank
from not bathing.

You certainly have a, shall we say, one-sided view of the country.
Any more exact details to back up your contentions? Time? Place?
Extent of contact?

Persephone