Paid to Pee #
July 8th, 2008 | In Worth Considering
To fight their public urination problem, officials in Musiri, Tamil Nadu, India are paying people to use the restroom.
Dozens of people are queuing up to use toilets in Musiri, a remote town in Tamil Nadu state, where authorities are succeeding in keeping street corners clean with the new scheme.
The urine was also being collected and tested for its efficacy as a crop fertiliser, an official of Tamil Nadu’s agricultural university said.
The poor of Musiri, are earning upto a dollar a month and very happy to keep the street corners clean.
(via Neatorama)