"Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in message
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On 11/21/08 06:23 am Bob wrote:

How about the toilet tax in Austrailia

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24670784-2,00.html

Note that this is merely a proposal made to one State legislature.

Thirty years ago in Australia it was not uncommon to find toilet tanks
with two concentric handles: one for liquid-only flushing, the other for
flushing poop.

Here in W. Michigan, our township has two separate charges based on water
consumption: one is for its supply, the other for its disposal. This has
the disadvantage of charging the sewage-treatment fee on the water that in
fact gets sprinkled on our lawns, but we offset that to some extent by
using low-flush toilets and even then flushing as infrequently as
possible.

As for "dry" toilets... A high school not far from here has waterless
urinals in the men's bathrooms. On the one occasion I was there they
seemed to work fine -- no smell.

The same here, our town in Southern Ontario, Canada, charges a sewage fee
based on the water consumed, whether it is used to water lawns or not.
Nothing new in this!

Presently I am using my own septic tank and so do not have to pay the Town's
sewage fees.