Cybernoon.com:Europe - Water or tissue paper

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It is difficult to believe that in the West — particularly in European countries — tissue paper is still used in toilet when modern methods, gadgets and water too are easily available. Why are they still sticking to outmoded, not-so-clean, messy life-style? They can’t help it. I am sure they would like to use water. It is not they prefer tissue to water. The fact is they do not have proper access to water. Access to warm water. In the winter it is freezingly cold. From November to April, water may not even flow properly in the pipe. People in countries like Norway, Sweden and Denmark face this problem. Not the rich, of course. They have money to burn and make water warm. But there are thousands of poor people in Europe. They cannot afford warm water in the toilet. They cannot sue ice-cold water because it causes a stunning pain in the arse. So using tissue has become a European life-style. This is a life-style which has developed over centuries. Things were worse in Europe a couple of centuries ago. In Dickens’ England people never even bathed. Forget about daily bath, they did not wash themselves for months. Even today, people do not bathe daily in Paris or London. The flower girl in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmallion gets scrubbed repeatedly when she is made to go through the ordeal of a bath. The poor in England even today do not have a daily bath. It is most unhygienic but they cannot help it. It has become a life-style which they cannot discard overnight.