>lifestyler cashing in the country >property because the cost of the water >and
sewage system
I wrote:
:Because the market did not provide
:alternative means
I read in today's "Press" how the price of food is moving ahead of inflation,
in most countries, because of land being put to biofuel crops, as well as Asian
markets increasing. It said economists had not foretold it. So decisions on
living locality may have missed such thought and rural living, or at least a
section with good garden space more attractive.
Over 10 years ago I referred to an alternative toilet system on the usenet
newsgroup nz.reg.canterbury.general. Now as water issues come more to the fore
it might be time to think over again, at first for rural areas, issues involved
with toilets:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001206/120617Eo.pdf
The Vietnamese toilet article I referred to is in that UNESCO file. It was a
1981 article. I wonder if developments have occurred, or whether we might make
some occur.
A responder (whose address included lincoln.ac.nz) thought Canterbury people
would not wish to squat. But surely technology could find some comfortable
means of separating the two excreta components, especially for males. In pit
toilets, it must be the urine which is carrying the nitrogen and bacterial
contamination to the aquifers, and in septic tanks the flush water, too.
Solar heating technology could help with sterilisation, if needed, or assist
bacterial heating activation.
The 'modern' flush toilet which was introduced to New Brighton some 50 or more
years ago might even be given a rethink, in case water gets to increase in cost
like food, or for other reasons.
Those who intend to make revenue from selling water and pumping sewage will
resist, I imagine.
Brian Sandle