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The problem is that the toilet's estimated cost is $0.05 per user. So for a 4 person family potentially living on only a couple dollars per day this would make
by Xeoncross 11y ago
The problem is that the toilet's estimated cost is $0.05 per user. So for a 4 person family potentially living on only a couple dollars per day this would make up 10-20% of their living expenses. This isn't like our budgets where we can afford 10-20% because we are WAY past trying to eat and live. This is 10-20% of all the money you have for food, clothing, and medicine.
Also, I'm assuming the toilet will go up in price as more people try to make more off the system.
All that said, I welcome the Nano Membrane toilet to the much needed market. I'm all for composting toilet technology as our current system of simply creating raw sewage then trying to treat it with massive amounts of chemicals (which are very bad for the environment) isn't sustainable.
1) Natureshead, 2) Airhead, and 3) Separett toilet
These three all much better suited to low cost, rural uses. For more hi-tech versions we have Sun-Mar. However, all these still cost at least $1,000 USD.
- ghshephard 11y agoFor "low cost, rural use" - nothing beats a hole in the ground. :-)
- david-given 11y agoDigging a safe latrine pit is more complex than you might think! http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/emergencies/fs3_4.pdf http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/hygiene/emergenci... Plus they have a limited lifetime; they fill up, and you need to dig a new one.
- glibgil 11y ago"low cost, rural use" are two phrases that don't appear in the article. This is for relatively affluent people (living on $5 a day not $1) in cities in the third world.
- glibgil 11y agoIt might be a good target for a municipal service. Effectively an overland sewer that gets to use existing infrastructure (the roads).