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Compost Guy — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:05:08 -0500

I agree wholeheartedly with what Megan said! It is utterly ridiculous just how much water (not to mention valuable nutrients) we waste - all in the name of societal advancement, no less! (or so we think). I'm guardedly optimistic that we're starting to see things at least a little bit differently, and that the use of composting toilets (and related technologies) will continue to increase in coming years.

I use to live in house in

_hitesh_atm — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:45:30 -0400

I use to live in house in small village of India. We use to have Toilet outside the house. When we migrated to City - Mumbai. We stayed in dormetroy where common toilets were provided which were in other part of the ally. We had Toilet in Flat/Apartment which is the typical way it use to be.

Above design of saving valuable water will lead to few architects designing keeping above innovation in mind.

Above technology will revolutionising in BOP (Bottom of the Pyramid) citizens.

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Talk about old technology

Megan — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:21:11 -0400

We read so much about much needed technology enhancements in the automotive and energy industries, but I would argue that toilets are also very outdated. It's absurd that we continue to soil and flush ever-more-valuable drinking water down American toilets. New technologies, such as the above mentioned composting toilets, could help us save a great portion of the 5 billion gallons of fresh water we flush down American toilets every day.

Clean and Green: The Brave New World of Composting Toilets

Ethan Arpi — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:52:04 -0400

This past Saturday, The Washington Post ran an article, Fighting Our Flux Fixation, on the increased use of eco-friendly toilets in the DC region. What piqued my interest was The Post’s discussion of composting latrines, which have the potential to improve sanitation in many urban and rural areas that are not part of a centralized sewer system. As described by The Post, composting toilets are a “high-tech version of an outhouse,” where waste is concentrated and gradually decomposed into fertilizer, which can be used to enrich soil and strengthen agriculture, the backbone of rural life.