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Since July of this year, the U of T has a new "water conservation program " that applies to all of their over 300 buildings. One of the measures is to shut off the flush mechanisim on the men's urinals, so that they only flush ONCE a day.
As any sensible person would have predicted......the urinals stink, and no amount of "urinal pucks " is going to combat the smell.
As we all know, a University is a place where "innovation and forward thinking " are so very important.
So, in the interest of "fairness and gender equality " I propose the following idea.
Lets shut off the flush feature on the female toilets, too. And only flush them ONCE a day, too.
Couldnt they just put a timer on the things that let them flush once an hour if some one trips a sensor, if no one trips the sensor it defaults to one flush a day
Shutting them all off for a day seems a bit draconian..
That was suggested. but the COST of installing timers was deemed "too costly ".
My point was simple.............IF the females were faced with a major smell, and inconvenience, the up roar would have been heard in Hamilton. BUT because the women are the driving force behind this "economy measure " as in most of the dumb things that a University does....... It will only affect the male segment of the population, of the University.
The lunacy is obvious, as the women don't have a unrinal, so shutting off the flush to the urinals means nothing to them. BUT if their toilets were ONLY flushed ONCE a day, they would be outraged, and appalled .
Talk about a double standard .
And , in a country with as much water as Canada has, this is a real dumb move.
What not to understand here? It's obviously not about water, it's about control. Government needs weak men in the country so they won't ever pose a threat to the order. This is being propagated through multiple absurd policies asserting dominance by "teaching a lesson". Just study history how all totalitarian crap starts.
Typical Canadian type of measures and attitudes - getting cheap by all means possible, and forgetting the whole picture and the drawbacks of such solutions.
And all these municipalities in Ontario are skinning us to death. Here in Waterloo where I live, you pay $3 per cubic meter of water delivered + wasted. While a cubic meter of natural gas is about 10 cents. Can you actually believe that? Water to be way more expensive than a rather limited resource, the natural gas? Abnormal, like any other thing here in Canada.
They need to install the special low water use urinals, or the waterless urinals... not just shut off the water to regular urinals. The smell will be alarming after just a few hours of use.
Good point about the sexism of this policy. U of T students should protest this measure.
You got my point, about how this is a blatant example of "lets do this, the men won't object, much ".
As you said, there are some alternatives, but the powers that be at the U of T have refused to spend ANY money on them. So much cheaper to simply turn off the water to the men's urinals.
And, yes, the stench at my Wife's U of T building is rolling down the halls.
Yes its real, but there is no official published program, just a bunch of greens trying to do something that wasn`t very well thought out.
Yesterday, at a faculty social event, my Wife spoke to the woman in charge of space allocation, who is in charge of saying who gets what office space, and she was un-aware of this idiotic practice. Her reaction was ```` Does the Dean know about this.
I think this un-official program may be about to end .......
I think that it could be shut down, as a health and safety issue. Unsanitary, and just plain dumb.
Jim B
Toronto.
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