According to a United Nations report more than half of humanity will be living with water shortages within 50 years because of a worldwide water crisis. Severe water shortages affecting at least 400 million people today will affect 4 billion people by 2050. Upstate New York’s reservoirs have dropped to record lows. Southwestern states such as Arizona will face other severe freshwater shortages by 2025. The government projects that at least 36 states will face water shortages within five years because of a combination of rising temperatures, drought, population growth, urban sprawl, waste and excess. The Great Lakes are shrinking and an epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Yet here in America, 6.8 billion gallons of water is flushed down toilets every day. Every time you flush the toilet you’re wasting 2 to 7 gallons of fresh water. This just doesn’t make sense, especially when there is a superior, inexpensive, efficient and logical alternative: the Envirolet dry composting toilet.
Obviously, being a dry toilet, it saves water and that is clearly important. However, there is far more at stake here and it’s about time we become educated in FLUSH FACTS.
Wealthy people have been using flush toilets for about 150 years. The flush toilet appears attractive because it removes the “waste” and its accompanying odor and pathogens quickly in an apparently sanitary manner. We have a tendency to soon forget about those unpleasantries which we can no longer see. Do we imagine that these bacteria, viruses, microbes and other nasties in our **** just disappear into a watery vacuum, never to be seen again? Do they dissolve into harmless particles of dust? Do they simply fade away? The fact is, they are displaced, creating a very serious problem for the folks at the other end of the pipe.
Once excrement is combined with water it is impossible to completely purify it, although we try, at tremendous costs. The treated water still contains heavy metals, pharmaceutical residues, hormones, and toxic chemicals as well as those microbes we conveniently flushed. Rather than being a sanitation system, it is a waste system which contributes to the most serious problems which confront society, mainly water pollution and waste, soil loss and destruction, and food insecurity.
This antiquated and absurd system has not and never will be able to solve the sanitation needs of the world.
The Envirolet dry composting toilet on the other hand breaks down waste to 10 to 30 percent of its original volume, and is comfortable and odorless. It contains, immobilizes and destroys the microbes that make us sick, transforming potentially harmful human excrement into a stable substance that is no longer dangerous to our health or that of others. Numerous laboratory studies and many thousands of experiences all over the world have demonstrated that the compost produced by the DCT poses no threat to our health or to the environment.
And yes, it’s odorless. The toilet has a screened exhaust system (often fan-forced) to remove odors, carbon dioxide, water vapor, and the by-products of aerobic decomposition.
The resulting end-product is a stable soil-like material called “humus,” a fully oxidized, plant-available nutrient that can be used as a soil conditioner for plants and trees. It can also be used as a soil conditioner on edible crops.
Will you continue to flush and forget, without noticing that we are all connected to a network of pollution that ends up harming others? More than one billion people in the world lack access to potable water, while we continue polluting and wasting this vital liquid in order to deal with our excrement.
Rebecca Jablonski
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Tags: Envirolet, Epic Drought, Government Projects, Sanitary Manner, Water Crisis
