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Ecosan Waterless toilet system

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Welcome to ECOSAN Australia web site, home of the waterless, odourless, dry sanitation toilet system. Here you will find more information on the following :

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Current Worldwide sanitation problems - this page
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Ecosan Toilet solutions - this page
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More information about this dry sanitation, evaporation toilet and it's optional outside toilet hut.
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Technical information including a diagram of a typical in-home installation
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Main features of the toilet
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A list of frequently asked questions
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Our contact information.

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