Learn
about a world of composting toilet and graywater system options!
From
cottage toilets to whole-house composters with micro-flush toilets
and graywater gardens, The Composting Toilet System Book
covers a wide realm of ecological toilet options.
Composting toilet
systems and other ecological wastewater management methods are emerging
as viable and cost-saving alternatives to wastewater disposal systems
worldwide. The book details why--and how to choose, install and
maintain them.
In this book, you
will find
Descriptions
of more than 40 systems--both manufactured and site-built--and
their sources
Compatible toilet
stools and micro-flush toilet installation tips
Tips on choosing,
planning, installing and maintaining your composting toilet system
(including what manufacturers won't tell you!)
The experiences
of owner-operators worldwide
What you should
know about graywater systems
Regulations and
advice about getting your system approved
The Composting
Toilet System Book contains
the information you need to choose and maintain composting toilet
systems and other alternatives to sewer and septic systems. Long
used by off-the-grid homeowners, parks and cottage owners, composting
toilet systems are now making their way into conventional year-round
homes. The technology has improved and is available in styles compatible
with upscale bathrooms. In addition to providing technical information
on various systems, the book profiles composting toilet system applications
worldwide, provides United States permitting information, and features
key maintenance and operation information that the manufacturers
do not provide. The book also contains information about using these
systems with graywater systems and flush toilets. Find out how you
can have a smaller leachfield, reduce pollution, and help arm yourself
and your community against the skyrocketing water and sewage costs
of the future.
The book is co-authored
by David Del Porto, who has sold and serviced thousands of several
models and brands of composting toilet systems since 1972. He
has also helped write regulations and performance standards for
these systems, and has designed composting toilet and graywater
systems for Greenpeace and for developing countries.
Buying The Composting
Toilet System Book directly from Ecowaters helps support our work.
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Liquid
Gold
The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants[return
to top] by Carol Steinfeld • Illustrations
by Malcolm Wells
5.25 x 8.25 • 96 pages
• Many illustrations and photographs
Color cover, black and white and color pages
ISBN: 0-9666783-1-1 • $12.95
Every day, we urinate nutrients that can
fertilize plants that could be used for beautiful landscapes, food,
fuel, and fiber. Instead, these nutrients are flushed away, either
to be treated at high cost or discharged to waters where they overfertilize
and choke off aquatic life.
Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of
Using Urine to Grow Plants tells you how urine--which contains
most of the nutrients in domestic wastewater and usually carries
no disease risk--can be utilized as a resource. Starting with a
short history of urine use--from ritual to medicinal to even culinary--and
a look at some unexpected urinals, Liquid Gold shows how
urine is used worldwide to grow food and landscapes, while protecting
the environment, saving its users the cost of fertilizer, and reconnecting
people to the land and the nutrient cycles that sustain them. That's
real flower power!
Liquid Gold features three ways to use
urine hygienically and productively for plant growth, with studies
that show the science behind this practice. Several advocates of
urine diversion and their gardens are profiled, demonstrating that
using urine for fertilizer is a feasible, safe, and cost-saving
way to prevent pollution and save on fertilizer costs.
For more information, including news, announcements
of Pee On Earth Day, and tips from readers, see the Liquid Gold
Web site: [click
here]
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card to buy online with PayPal:
$12.95 + free US postage!
Reusing
the Resource: Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling
by
Carol Steinfeld and David Del Porto
7.75 x 9 • 144 pages
• 300+ color photos and diagrams
• $24.95
Imagine a future in which gardens,
greenhouses and groves of trees replace sewage outfall pipes
and leachfields. Sewage will grow ecological tree plantations
that provide fuel, fiber, construction materials, wildlife
habitat and beautiful landscapes. A pig farm's wastewater
will fertilize a tree farm instead of pollute a river. A house's
wastewater will irrigate and fertilize its surrounding landscape.
A planted roof will collect and filter rainwater for use in
the house.
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direct from Ecowaters and receive our free quarterly newsletter
with updates.
$24.95
+ free US postage!
$24.95
+ $6 shipping outside U.S.:
SPECIAL:
Order 3--one for you, one for your community, and one
your city planner or 3 for LEED professionals in your
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Plans
for Composting Toilet and Graywater Systems [return
to top]
EcoWaters
Net-Barrel Composting Toilet System
Originally
designed for an eco-tourism resort in Fiji, the 55-Gallon
Net Batch system is an inexpensive solution that uses
reused 55-gallon drums (or you can use rollaway trash
bins) and an effective aeration mechanism that maximizes
the composting material's surface to volume ratio. That
means faster and more thorough composting. The capacity
is as expandable as the number of reactors (drums) used.
Plans include design for a simple Wastewater Garden to
manage leachate and, expanded, graywater, too!
Ecowaters Twin-Bin
Net Composting Toilet System This design is an advancement of
the classic two-vault composter system used worldwide. The
difference: Improved aeration mechanisms that gets more air
to the composting material and manage leachate. First used
by Greenpeace for its appropriate technology and ecotourism
projects, this system has proven successful in the South Pacific
islands, Mexico and even cooler regions of the U.S., for its
high efficiency, low maintenance and low construction cost.
EcoWaters
Twin-Bin Net Composting Toilet System plans and maintenance
manual
$30 (U.S. only; non-U.S. add $7 postage)
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Buy both sets of
plans, pay only $50
How
to Build a Washwater Garden A
simple step-by-step guide to constructing a Washwater
Garden, a contained zero-discharge graywater and leachate
management system. $15 (U.S.
only; non-U.S. add $5)
Dam
Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground [return
to top]
This essay anthology looks at water issues worldwide
and throughout history, including science, history and
investigative reporting, as well as personal stories
and profiles. Among other concerns, writers collected
here-mostly activists, but also sociologists, educators
and reporters-address untreated sewage dumping and the
disease outbreaks it causes; the destructive power of
upstream dams; and the sediment-starved Mississippi
Delta, its attendant erosion, and the horrific storm
damage that's resulted. A short, frank multi-millennial
history of urban sewage disposal illustrates well the
dangers of water supplies contaminated by sewage-cholera,
typhus, typhoid, etc.-and is equally forthright about
the problems with current municipal sewage treatment
practices. The authors maintain a tongue-in-cheek style
that, for the most part, keeps tedium at bay; if readers
find Part One too polemical, Parts Two and Three offer
principles and proper construction techniques for practical,
at-home solutions, including home watergardens, home-scale
graywater wetland systems.
