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Uganda knowledge node
Health Risks, Safe Handling and benefits of Feaces and Urine from an Ecosan Toilet (UDDT).
The Urine Diversion Dry Toilets (UDDT) collects urine separately from faeces and water.
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Safe urine and feaces for reuse in our gardens can be achieved
by dehydration (addition of dry material like ash, sawdust, dry soil, husks after every toilet use) and Decomposition (buried underground for a period of 12 months along with household and garden organic refuse).
Other precautionary measures;
- Wear gloves, rubber boots (shoes), and overalls when emptying processing chambers or pits.
- Bathe well afterwards- including careful hand washing with water and soap
- Only adults and not children should empty the chambers/pits
- Dig or plough the dehydrated feaces into the soil immediately upon application
- Handling and transport systems should involve minimal contact with the feaces.
- Have a well designed / constructed closed systems/ facility with vent pipes of the right length and diameter.
Proper Ecosan + Good post-toilet + Good hygienic = Safe urine and feaces
Toilet use handling behavior
Benefits of an Ecosan toilet (UDDT); It provides both urine and feacal matter which play an essential role in building healthy soils and providing valuable nutrients for plants recycle.
Netwas Uganda with support from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) under its Ecological Sanitation Research programme is implementing a project aimed at promoting sustainable sanitation through facilitating and coordinating capacity development and knowledge management.
For more information contact:
The EcosanRes Uganda knowledge node hosted by NETWAS Uganda
Plot 2220 Port bell Road, Kitintale
Aqua Complex, 1st floor
Email: netwasuganda@gmail.com
Tel: 0414 577 463/ 0772 662 0662
ecosan toilets would be very beneficial to the rural population at house hold level, but for the breakthrough to come massive and continual sensitisation is seriously needed.This will go a long way in improving both the sanitation ofthe population and their crop yield
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