the 'necessary'.....

The 'necessary', toilet, bathroom, rest room, WC (water closet) and here--the CR (comfort room).

I think our team saw/used it all.   From 'hunting the bushes'--saw men relieving themselves against a wall or whatever--to a CR with 4 thin walls and door on concrete pad about 4' by 4' square, with simply a bowl.   Not a toilet bowl like  you might think of in the West, but a round bowl, quite low to the ground--so one builds strong thigh muscles squatting.  No toilet seat.   Sometimes a bucket to put tissue in, but rarely any tissue available.   We learned quickly to always carry some tissue with us to any CR.    There is a bucket with water in it and a dipper to use to 'flush' the toilet.        This CR I have in mind seemed to be used by a cluster of homes (meaning the 10' x  12' foot small homes).

Then CR's in fast food places--sometimes a more typical American toilet, but still low, but with a seat.  Still tissue goes in separate bucket.   Sometimes a regular flush or else bucket with dipper.   Outside CR room is a sink with water, sometimes soap, and rarely any tissue to dry with.  sometimes a very brief air dry for hands.

Even in the large malls--where one found stalls in the CR and even sinks in the  CR--one still carried one's own tissue and  put the used in a separate bucket. 

Most recently in brother-in-law's  current home in Bangued (Abra 'province') a good 8 hours north of Manila, the shower is a dip water from bucket to get wet, rinse after suddsing in same room as the round toilet bowl....and cold water only unless one heats water to add to the bucket.            

So again, it all varies to one's financial position in life, as well as probably the area one lives in--whether there is plumbing to each home or not.   I totally have not figured out the 'city' plumbing!!

by these men cutting a downed coconut tree into pieces of wood, there is an above ground pipe for???
and a deep ditch for????

and note the fellow with the basketball--it is the big sport here!