I believe that a lot of Nevada and Arizona dose that. They have signed about "grey water"

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Its not really about priviledge as much as its about water abundence is certain geopraphical areas.

'the west' didnt set up 99% of it cities on the rivers for no reason.

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The place I work at uses rain water. How do I know? They have signs that read "rainwater in use not suitable for consumption" above every toilet and urinal. Pretty sure the story behind the need for these signs is pretty gross.

Using your hand is straight cheating

We aren't taught how to blink either, or how to make our heart beat, or digest food.

All happen based on the body and not thoughts.

A homeless shelter isn’t a home, it’s a place of shelter for those without homes. Most people’s houses are homes.

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It's just a convention that's been around for a while.
Back in the day, maps were oriented towards the east, but then compasses came around and everyone started using them to orient towards north.

Why would you pump grey water from house to house? That’s insane. A grey water system would just take water from any sinks, showers and baths in the house and pump it to the toilet tank.

dunno, its what my dad told me. It was the 90ies in Germany..

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Ehhhh they do look pretty similar to bones in my experience, at least in color. Shape is obviously unique and they are shinier than bones.

Not mention you can reroute shower water to the toilet reservoir so you use the same water twice.

Why would you need a second meter?

The water bill includes a fee for removal of rain water (at least mine from Yorkshire water does.) The rain water they remove remains the same whether it goes straight to the sewers, or to a cistern/loo and then the sewers.

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I read it the other way around, like the OP thinks only the west have toilets? Also West isn't the same as saying USA.

You have 200,000 karma and posted 14 separate comments yesterday.

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It’s less expensive to use the clean water then to build an entirely new system for houses to have unclean water. Did you think of that genius?

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Lots of countries have clean water for the bathrooms, not just western! Also it’s safer and more cost efficient.

For real, the west? Everyone uses toilets, and there are really poor Places that don't use it everywhere, also on the west.

Except for the fact that residential drinking water has to be cleaned, filtered, disinfected, & transported to your home all of which has a cost and requires energy & resources. Where as rain water falls on your roof and is simply collected, filtered, and used.

I’ve helped design several commercial scale rain water systems in the US for non-potable uses such as car washing & toilet flushing. It’s a thing.