an estimated 0.5 tonnes per person per year. Simply made, but rather uncomfortable toilets, common in rural areas of Central Asia, cause groundwater pollution and may trigger infectious disease outbreaks when pollutants are washed away into surface water, for example, by floods. The alternative approach of “ecological sanitation”, which has already been tested in some sites in Kazakhstan, separates liquid waste into feces and urine that are treated separately resulting in waste products that can be applied to improve soil fertility.
Clean-up action “Taza Issyk-Kul”, Eco Demi, Kyrgyzstan
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