Friday, January 21, 2011

ECOSAN Toilet: A new way to be harmony with our MOTHER NATURE!!!

   Ecological Sanitation which also known as ECOSAN is a concept on our sanitation system which recognized human excreta and household waste water as the resources to be recovered and to be reuse. In converse to the common practiced linear waste management that we had now, ECOSAN is much more enviromentally friendly in terms of nutrient and energy recovery.

   ECOSAN toilet is a dry toilet or waterless toilet which also means ECOSAN toilet bowl does not need to flush water, in that way we can prevent the wasting of water. In ECOSAN toilet, urine and faeces are separated by 2 compartments. The feaces will be decomposed by microbes and become soil-like. Both the feaces compost and urine can be used as natural fertilizers in gardening.
   In this way, not only that ECOSAN is ecological friendly, it also helps in conserving the water resources and quality as the solid-water separation job is very difficult. As the ECOSAN toilet doesn't use water, we can also save up to 60% of monthly bills!



Here's a clip about the construction of ECOSAN toilet projects by UNICEF India,

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