LETTER: Workable solutions can be found
The government is not rising to the challenge of building school toilets, but ways can be found to tackle the problem
Former US president Barack Obama said “yes we can” and always tried for progress. It is too easy to say “no, we can’t”, seeing only the barriers: bureaucratic systems are filled with reasons for inertia. I am looking at some prevailing facts and wondering where are the people to say “yes, we can” and creating solutions for them. The problems: Lots of schools all over the country need new buildings and properly constructed toilet and bathroom facilities. It is not apparent to me that any government department is doing anything energetic about this. Talking? No doubt! Doing? Further facts: There are plenty of people all over the country out of work. There is a capable construction industry which is chronically short of work. There are lots of consulting engineers with spare capacity and young qualified engineers without jobs and needing field experience. There are systems for sound, prefabricated, industrialised buildings, which are less expensive and easily assembled on simple founda...
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