24/11/2018
These waterless hi-tech toilets could be the answer to urban Africa?s waste problems
About 23% of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa don?t have access to toilets while 31% with toilets use one?s that aren?t connected to a formal sanitation system. This means that more than half the people in sub-Saharan Africa live without proper sanitation ? that?s about 570 million people. One of the problems is that existing toilets aren?t a good fit for parts of sub-Saharan Africa because many areas lack water and there are often no proper plumbing or facilities to treat wastewater. But there are solutions?toilets that are designed differently. We have come up with some innovative designs overcome the two biggest challenges?excessive use of water, and the fact that urine and feces...
