Water Wheel - Jul/Aug 2008

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Letters Flush toilets not ideal for SA I read with interest that the International Year of Sanitation and AMCOW both regard a flush toilet leading to a septic tank or disposal system as the standard. Why do we blindly accept the wet Europe idea of the water closet in a drought-ridden country? Whatever happened to the idea of separating the poisonous mix of urine and faeces instead of diluting it? What happened to all the good ideas of the alternative and whole earth societies of the 1960s and 1970s; sawdust toilet buckets, untreated toilet paper etc? If everyone has a flush toilet will there be enough water left to drink or wash your hands with? Or will we have to adopt the Bedouin custom of eating with your right hand and performing ablutions – using desert sand – with your left? Ben Dekker, Port St Johns Water figures incorrect The article on water conservation (Water & Energy Join Hands to Avert Future Crisis) in the Water Wheel May/June 2008 refers. We would like to point out an error in the water figures quoted in the article.

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