National
Water Center, Eureka Springs,
Arkansas
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Water toilets reinforce one of our mightiest taboos, the social prohibitions that surround our body products. They let us forget that feces and urine are a natural part of the food chain - repayment to the soil for the nutrients supplied in our food. Water toilets foster the illusion that these or any other products can be flushed away without consequences. In our culture, our most frequent and most commonly shared experience with water is with the water in a toilet bowl. This daily, lifelong practice fosters the illusion that water is little more than a handy receptacle and vehicle for unwanted products. Today's water crisis is the logical consequence of this twofold "waste/water" illusion. where water is a waste vehicle and anything can be a waste, no water resource is safe. Our culture is permeated with this "waste/water" illusion. It is instilled in one of the earliest and strongest lessons of childhood - toilet training. It is reflected in the design and operation of every conventional home, city, business, factory and farm. Water resources will be clean when our culture gives full value to water and wastes. Values that reflect our absolute dependence on water for life and the reality that there are no wastes, only misplaced resources. Like all cultural values, these must be acquired in the home. The water crisis ends and clean water begins at home. From "We All Live Downstream A Guide That Stops Water Pollution" - see link below.
Composting Toilets articles - click on the hyperlink of your choice.
The National Water Center recommends these sites:
www.weblife.org/humanure/default.html
Center for Ecological Pollution Prevention (CEPP)
users.easystreet.com/ersson/sawdust.htm - Plans
on how to make and
use a simple "sawdust" toilet.
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National Water
Center Barbara Helen
Harmony :: email:
peace@ipa.net
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