New ecosan household in Vorokhta in the Ukraine
Dry urine-diverting toilet for household; testing new sanitation model in a rural village
17.09.2005 |Margriet Samwel
The project team of the local NGO MAMA-86 celebrates the opening of the econsan toilet
Rural Development", has build as a demonstration object the first
household ecological toilet in Ukraine.
The new dry urine-diverting toilet build as a demonstration object in the village of Vorokhta, Ukraine
The toilet separates urine and feacal material, which are stored and
sceptized (urine) and composted (feacals) so that both end-products can
be used as ferzilizer and humus in horticulture and agriculture.
MAMA-86 Yeremche organised a seminar for the inhabintants of the
village to explain the functioning of the ecosan toilet. There was a
lot of interest. Educational posters were produced and there is
interest from other families to exchange their pit-latrines (a hole in
the ground, often polluting ground-water sources) to the new ecosan
model.
Inside the toilet, educational posters explain the ecosan system
