Technical resources

About composting toilets

Corn grown with urine-fertilizer. (photo by Peter Morgan, Aquamor)Corn grown with urine-fertilizer. (photo by Peter Morgan, Aquamor)The modern day sewer system has failed. Fortunately, we don't need costly sewage plants or septic systems to render human waste into a harmless substance that, instead of being a problem, is a solution to problems of water shortages, water pollution, and reliance on chemical fertilizers.

This is ecological sanitation, taking care of our human sanitation needs in a way that is helpful, rather than harmful, to the environment.

History of Sewers

Cesspools and Cholera: The Development of the Modern Sewer

by Joaquin I. Uy

This is an excerpt of an article in Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground.