Bogs for the girls

[j4]

This year there will be special loos just for the laydeez at Glastonbury. (Thanks to sion_a for spotting this one.)

How daft, though. I don't want toilets which aren't used by men -- they're all individual cubicles anyway! -- I want toilets that aren't used by morons. I certainly don't think men have a monopoly on being filthy and inconsiderate.

Comments

[juliet]

As others have said: the basic problem is the scale of the operation. 150,000 people onsite - Glastonbury becomes the biggest town in the county (or something like that - possibly the biggest in the southwest) for 4 days every June. It's basically a farm, and whilst there are extensive sewage provisions onsite, it's still bloody difficult. A shower per 8 people is a non-starter - there's no way they could provide the water (there are some showers, but most folk don't bother for the 4 days they're there - you can always wash in cold water under one of the taps if need be). They do get cleaned at least daily (or have done in previous years), but 150,000 people is a *lot* of waste.

Free, clean drinking water is of course provided - but people *want* to drink, it's not that they *have* to.

If you're interested in the logistics, there's assorted student packs available from the website which have documents about the logistics of the festival (in particular most of the Working Group report after the 2001 festival - or was it 2000? - was heavily gatecrashed and they had to review the whole operation to keep their license).