Comments on: Depriving the Third World of Flush Toilets

By: cheritycall

cheritycall — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:29:12 +0000

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By: Minorstatistic

Minorstatistic — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:47:55 +0000

The mixing of human waste with large volumes of water is about the worst technique imaginable for waste management, creating as it does a toxic soup ideal for pathogen regeneration and, if not contained and treated, contamination and the spread of disease.

The price of containment and treatment is vast amounts of potable water flushed away, thousands of kilometers of sewage networks and huge financial and energy costs treating the toxic waste.

Given the differences in many developing countries urban environment, dry systems are often cheap, hygienic, efficient, autonomous solutions.

By: Critical Section

Critical Section — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:37:48 +0000

Thursday, September 04, 2003 11:00 PM

Haight Speech: Depriving the Third World of Flush Toilets. It sounds like a headline from the Onion, but this is serious, as is the International Dry-Toilet Conference. And no, I am not making this up….

By: dj

dj — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 07:46:01 +0000

Hey! Just to provoke another war, what about toilet paper? How about giving up toilet paper? most of the world just uses their fingers. That’s why it was such a bad thing to be left handed (which I am). It means you clean your ass with your right hand - the one you shake hands with.

By: dj

dj — Mon, 01 Dec 2003 07:38:28 +0000

You’re gonna desalinate water to run a flush toilet?

Still I haven’t ever seen a non-flush toilet that didn’t stink, which implies that they’re not in the house, which implies going outside in the middle of the night, which implies freezing your nuts off in the winter. Oh! Remember honey pots?

Well, we just may have to. All these posts imply that you or anyone will have a choice in the matter. If the water stops coming out of the pipe, then you have one last shit. Then you either go get water and carry it back to your toilet, or you go shit somewhere else the next time.

You gonna use carried water to flush your toilet? I doubt it. Not after a couple of weeks of carrying all your water.

Still I’ll wait until the water stops coming out of the pipes until I install a composting outhouse.

By: TL

TL — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 19:19:28 +0000

I had one of these toilets when my house was built.I was forced to have one because of the new jersey pinelands act.It smelled real bad. Could not have partys because these toilets can only take so much water, after that your down there collecting water in a 4oz bottle.I wrote the pinelands and told them that it was unhealthy for my daughter as the smell was making her sick. Pinelands wrote me back saying that it was the law.A year went by (almost to the day)before the state of NJ declared that the dry toilet was unhealthy for people.I removed my dry toilet after three months use.I didnt wait for the state to tell me one way or the other If you want your house to smell like a horse farm be my guest.

By: Macker

Macker — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 23:47:50 +0000

And who’s preventing us from building more desalination plants? It’s the freakin’ leftists and environmentalists! They got to the politicians for almost 30 years now and look where they’ve got us….
They want you to think the technology for the stuff (or anything beneficial to society) is based in the 1960s….which is a bunch of bulls hit.

By: Kragen Sitaker

Kragen Sitaker — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:50:34 +0000

It’s great that so many people want to spread the convenience and sanitary benefits of flush toilets to the whole world, but we’re gonna need a hell of a lot of desalination plants to supply all those toilets. And a hell of a lot of energy to run those plants. And don’t forget about the sewage plants — according to statements on the Web site, Milan and Brussels, among other non-third-world cities, are still discharging a lot of raw shit into the waterways. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could achieve results just as convenient and sanitary with less resource-intensive methods than flush toilets and sewage plants? Maybe people downstream from Bucharest would appreciate eating less raw shit.

That’s what it appears this conference is about. Not persuading people to use a chamber pot.

Sheesh. What’s with you people? How did you learn to *write* without learning to *read*?

By: Macker

Macker — Sun, 07 Sep 2003 02:51:09 +0000

NTM les Europeans! What a crappy idea.

By: akaky

akaky — Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:10:48 +0000

all of these things may be true, but i am keeping my flush toilet; i will krazy glue it to my ass before some green dip makes me return to the outhouse