N55                World Toilet Day (Part 2 )

Restaurants and food shops are not doing enough concerning toilets. This is due not only to management but also to people who use them. Some installed western type of toilets and people without knowledge get on them with slippers and thus damage and make them dirty. I heard from someone that the toilets of Junction Square put instructions on the wall about how to use this kind of toilets. Only this kind of education will suit our country.

    

  Another thing is that they don’t usually keep pegs in toilets. People who go around take some kinds  of bags  with them. If there are no pegs where can they hang their bags. There are always pegs in toilets of developed countries. But some places in Myanmar are starting to do so now.

     

Our country is one place tourists like to visit now . The number of tourists visiting Myanmar is increasing dramatically during these few years. Also business people are flocking to Myanmar to look for opportunities . Beside hotel rooms we should prepare all facilities for these people. Must visit places for tourists in Myanmar included Yangon, Bagan, Inlay etc.

When I visited Nyaungshwe not long ago I noticed it hasn’t changed much in spite of many foreign visitors. We went into a restaurant and asked to use toilets and they replied that they don’t keep one . But thank God that one worker escorted us to a nearby flat which has an ordinary lavatory.

    

   The next time we went into a Chinese restaurant where we heard that their hsi kyet is good. To go to the toilets we had to pass the blazing fireplace through a wet floor and then outside to the common dark toilets. I want very much to give them some advice to keep good clean toilets where visitors can  use because many people including tourists are coming to Nyaungshwe , so that it will not shame us and at the same time be a kind of help to visitors. But I couldn’t manage to do so.

      

In big cities and towns of developed countries toilets can be found everywhere. Even a small restaurant has one or even two toilets. Usable and clean toilets are at every train or bus station. When we have relieved ourselves after walking  around , eating, shopping and such things we are very much at ease. Toilets are a necessity if not a luxury.

     

   It is important for every human being to have access to good clean toilets. They are for improving the health and well being of all people.So everybody should work together to achieve  this  goal of  WORLD TOILET DAY.