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First Dry Toilet in Chambo
Even if the water supply is not a problem, the cost of building an appropriate waste water treatment plant is way too high to be able to serve al the population, it makes that in rural areas from Ecuador, very few houses have a clean and useful toilet
In Chambo, 10 km from Riobamba, capital of the province of Chimborazo, Ecuador, the first Dry Toilet was handed to the Major and the Municipality. Besides being a proper sanitation solution, as well as for the biological needs as well as for the general hygiene, it saves a lot of money from the municipalities because it is not needed to build a sewage system or a waste water treatment plant. Gray waters from the shower are very little pollutant and can be reused for the orchard.
In the picture, Dr. Jorge Romero (center), Major of Chambo, the councils from the Municipality and the benefitiaries, receive the Dry Toilet.
Four new EcoMaterials made with bambo
Under the direction of Arq. Jorge Morán, a group of experts from the Faculty of Architecture from the Catholic University of Guayaquil, UCSG, in Ecuador, achieved a prize from the SENESCYT* to produce construction materiales from the Ecuadorian Bamboo and other EcoMaterials like natural clay color paints and fire-resistant natural fibers, all with local materials
South-South interchange: from the sea level to the highlands
In Ecuador, peasants from the coastline, who live in the islands of the gulf of Guayaquil, at the sea level, made two visits to the province of Chimborazo to get to know the technologies from EcoSur network and exchange experiencies with indigenous communities from the highlands, settled over 3,800 meters above the sea level.
Read more: South-South interchange: from the sea level to the highlands
Bamboo specialists meet in Cuba
A new life in new houses in Haiti
In January 2010, at the time of the earquake in Haiti, Paul Beatrice was pregnant. As a result of the wound she sufferde, she lost her right arm and her unborn child. After the disaster, she returnet to live in Liancourt with his grandmother. Now, a new hope is born in her with a new house
