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wow, yahoo answers is such an amazing, trust worthy source of information. no wonder the NSA uses it to gather information on targets to satisfy INs.(sarcasm)

RATCHETING UP THE FEAR THREAT AGAIN I SEE.

Toilet Paper and Mexican Plumbing

J. Brad Grieve

In village businesses, it is common to see a sign in the bathroom asking you not to throw tissue paper down the toilet. The debate among friends in high school was whether the toilet paper should be scrunched or folded when used. But here in Mexico, the debate includes whether or not the toilet paper should be discarded into the toilet at all.

Yes, this is a dirty topic. However it is a common to question about whether or not one can throw the toilet paper into the toilet. The answer is a definite maybe.

Getting back to the question at hand (so to speak), to answer we must understand the system being used to treat the waste products. And to be clear, when I say, "waste" or "black water," I am referring to everything that you flush down your toilet. If you have a municipal sewer system, yes you can flush the paper down the toilet since the municipal system can handle the paper from toilets. And if you have a private septic tank on your property, the same answer can be true since the bacteria in the septic tank can help break down the cellulose in the paper. Nevertheless, an excessive amount of toilet paper can be a problem by overloading the tank and slowing down the bacterial activity in the septic tank. Hopefully the septic tank is healthy and large enough to handle the volume of material that needs to be treated.

Now we should know that only the villages and towns of the Lake Chapala (i.e. Chapala, Jocotepec, Ajijic, San Antonio Tlayacapan, San Juan Cosala, etc) have municipal wastewater treatment plants to handle the "black water" from the toilets in their respective communities. However in village businesses, it is common to see a sign in the bathroom asking you not to throw tissue paper down the toilet. The problem is not the municipal sewer system, but likely the drainpipe between the toilet and the street drain connection.

The typical problem is the type of pipe that has been used. Traditionally, drains from the house to the street were short sections of red clay pipes joined together. Over time, the clay pipes become porous and rough on the interior surface, and the joints between the sections of the pipes open up. Or due to low strength, the sidewalls of the clay pipes slowly collapse. The combination of these three deleterious conditions do not promote the easy flow of toilet paper along the sections of pipe. The toilet paper or waste product can become hung up on the joints, breaks or rough surfaces. Once stopped along the sidewall, they become a collection point for more and more toilet paper and waste, which eventually clogs the pipes and stops the flow of waste.

More modern drains systems use plastic piping (typically PVC) for the drainage of waste. These plastic pipe systems tend not to have the hang up points along the length of pipe for the toilet paper. There is less chance for a clog forming in the drain, plastic piping is more favorable to toilet paper movement along the length of the drain pipe.

But there are other factors that affect the movement of "waste" along the length of the drainpipe. The slope or inclination of the pipe affects the waste flow. If the pipe is too steep, the waste flows quickly down the pipe. However, elements of the waste could become "stuck" to the side of the pipe and become a point for future toilet paper to hang up, helping to form larger and larger clogs that eventually plug the drainpipe. Ideally, the drainpipe is sloped or inclined approximately 2% or � inch per foot of length, to keep the waste in the pipe, wet and amid liquid to lubricate and promote its slow but constant movement along the length of the pipe.

So as your are about to throw the paper into the toilet, use your x-ray vision and determine what type of pipes are underground and how they were installed. This would be easy if you were Superman, but maybe we just need to respect the sign in the restaurant's bathroom.

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alonzo harris (view profile)	Posted 8:18 am, 08/05/2014
As anyone who has traveled in Mexico can attest.

so...this does not include you.

As anyone who has traveled in Mexico can attest. They don't flush their toilet paper, bc it plugs up the substandard septic tanks they have in Mexico (usually just a 55 gallon drum buried in the sand). So every Mexican restroom has a pile of ****stained toilet paper in one corner. Usually covered with flies.

This unsanitary practice is carried to the US, by the invading illegal aliens.

Among the many factors helping to spread disease.

RATCHETING UP THE FEAR THREAT AGAIN I SEE.

alonzo harris (view profile)	Posted 8:00 am, 08/05/2014
Another point, arrest records show many folks from ebola infected regions are crossing our open southern border. We've all seen how these illegal aliens are being corralled together prior to being flown everywhere in the country, without medical screening.

there you go again with your nutjob news scores. tell me where was Batboy last spotted? and did they ever find out if Obama was a lizard alien warlord?

Doctors fear growing hospital superbug

Dr. Forest Arnold worries about the growing menace of CRE � a deadly superbug that preys on hospitalized patients and kills about half who get bloodstream infections.

"We haven't seen much here, but I'm sure it's coming," said Arnold, an epidemiologist at University of Louisville Hospital and an associate professor of infectious diseases at U of L.

A study in the August issue of the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology shows cases of the antibiotic-resistant superbug rose fivefold in community hospitals in the Southeastern United States from 2008 to 2012.

Although the study didn't look at hospitals in Kentucky or Indiana, researchers at Duke University Medical Center said the rates reflect a growing problem across the region and throughout the country.

"People need to be aware," Arnold said. "It will eventually get here." And because Kentucky has a comparatively unhealthy population, with many patients suffering from multiple illnesses, "we have a lot of vulnerable people."

CRE, short for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, are a family of bacteria that have, over time, become resistant to last-resort antibiotics called carbapenems. CRE-related illnesses vary by where the germ infects the body and range from gastrointestinal illness to pneumonia to bloodstream infections.

One point made in the video...hospitals around the country are losing the battle against drug-resistant bacteria, MRSA, staph-infections. There are a steady stream of news articles about people contracting these infections in hospital, and having amputations or even dying as a result.

Now, to knowingly import ebola into a general hospital in the middle of a major metro area?

What's wrong with this picture?

Another point, arrest records show many folks from ebola infected regions are crossing our open southern border. We've all seen how these illegal aliens are being corralled together prior to being flown everywhere in the country, without medical screening.

This is a timebomb whose fuse has already been lit by Barack Hussein Ebola.

FROM THE TITLE OF YOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO, I DON'T HAVE TO WATCH IT.

From the timestamp on your post; it's clear that you did not even watch the video.

I expect nothing less; from dedicated Obama kool-aid drinkers.

ANOTHER YOUTUBE VIDEO FROM THE LEADING REDNECK TEA ARTY CONSPIRACY THEORIST.

TELL US WILBAR, HOW HAS HIS BIRTHER THEORY WORKED OUT SO FAR?

President Barack Hussein Ebola!

Hope, you could not be more right. If you have a few people with ebola traveling with a thousand others and then they are dispersed to four different states and attend schools.... Well you get the picture

...like I said, if you are chiding to be worried about the Ebola epidemic, worry less about these two individuals, and more about the ones coming in that we don't know have it.

70 individuals have been detained at the US border between January and June of this year from the three African nations hardest hit with Ebola.

Just watching and learning about the patients remarkable experience with the experimental drug. WOW!