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Ecosan toilet - Key Features
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Alternative
to:
Composting
toilet Chemical toilet
Bucket / sawdust / pit toilet
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| Waterless |
| Odourless |
| Chemical free |
| Answer to dry
sanitation |
| Easy
installation |
| Lightweight |
| No septic
tank required |
| Does not
contaminate underground water resources |
| Environment
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What is a waterless
toilet system?
It
is a dry sanitation system that does not require any water to
function. Over a period of a few weeks it dries out the human waste
into a completely dry product that is safer to handle and easily
disposable.
Read
more..
The Ecosan toilet
system has been approved by the Department of Health Western
Australia
Click on
certificate to see larger version
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Ecosan
Waterless toilet system
Welcome
to ECOSAN Australia web site, home of the waterless, odourless, dry
sanitation toilet system. Here
you will find more information on the following :
BACKGROUND
Australia, as with many other countries worldwide, continuously experience
droughts and water shortages. Water bourne sewage systems demand large
quantities of water that can be better used for human consumption. During
the mid 1990's Mr. Jan Joubert MD of Eco Sanitation (Pty) Ltd.- South Africa developed a
dry sanitation waterless toilet system and the first ECOSAN waterless toilet field tests
were conducted in 1997. After a 18 month test period the toilet was officialy launched
in December 2000
and since then a vast number of the toilets have been installed. The
Ecosan toilet has also been accepted very well in the rest of Africa and a
sole distributor for the Caribbean and South America was appointed in
September 2003.
In
2003 Frik Mulder the current MD of Ecosan Australia secured the sole
distributing and manufacturing rights for the toilet to Australia. The
Head Office was set up in Perth from where they are selling the fully
imported toilets. A Ecosan toilet factory is on the planning boards and
the toilets will be manufactured in Australia soon. The Ecosan
toilet has recently been approved by the Department of Health - Government of
Western Australia ( see left column ).
Worldwide
sanitation problems
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Many
countries are chronically short of water, which makes the use of water
bourne sanitation an unrealistic option.
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The
capital cost required for water bourne sanitation is prohibitive in most
of the cases.
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It
has conclusively proven that nitrate loaded effluent from pit-latrines
is directly responsible for widespread contamination of valuable
groundwater resources.
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The
regular operating and maintenance costs of sanitation systems such as
bucket latrines, septic tanks, chemical and waterborne toilets are
very high.
The
ECOSAN Toilet solution
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Affordable
water free system
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Completely
closed system
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No
sewage pipe network and sewage treatment plants required
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No
effluent seepage into underground water resources.
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No
obnoxious odours
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Indoor
or outdoor installation
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Minimum
monthly operating costs
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Plumbing-free
solution
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Contact Ecosan outside
Australia Are
you from a country outside Australia and interested in the Ecosan toilet? contact
our South African offices. 
e-mail
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A World
Health Organisation
Assessment
found that:
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Around a quarter of the 4.8 billion people in developing countries are without access to improved sources of water, while half of them are without access to improved sanitation services.
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Of the 4.9 billion people worldwide who have access to water supply services, around 3 billion have the convenience of access through house connections or yard taps.
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There are 4 billion cases of diarrhoea in the world every year, with 2.2 million deaths, mostly among children under five. Safe water, adequate sanitation and hygiene can reduce diarrhoeal disease by between one-quarter and one-third of these cases.
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Rural services still lag far behind urban ones, but delivering affordable services to the rapidly growing numbers of urban poor remains a formidable challenge.
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There are huge inequities in the amounts invested in improving services to the better-off sections of urban society compared with investments in providing basic services for the unserved poor.
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Contact
Details
FRIK MULDER
TEL (08) 9390 9382
FAX (08) 9390 9382
MOBILE 0400 080 155
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