Although the forerunning company of the Eco-San Toilet System was established in the year 1987, the idea of an Eco-San Toilet System in the Philippines traced back to the year 2001 when the Center for Advanced Philippines Studies (CAPS) sealed a partnership with WASTE, a Dutch non-government organization, in order to conduct solid waste management studies, particularly on recycling, composting, hospital wastes and institutional aspects of Solid Waste Management. The WASTE suggested an emerging new product to the CAPS –a new way of managing excreta, and this was the Eco-Sanitation Toilet System. Their pilot project was in Batangas City, where they installed the Eco-San Toilets on four indigent households. Although only one out of four of their toilets functioned properly due to incorrect and neglected structural designs, they were able to reconstruct and improve its system later on.
Today, there are over 400 Eco-San Toilets installed across the country with the aid of the funding from Local Government Units (LGUs) and with the involvement of different sectors such as the Department of Health, Department of Interior and Local Government –Gesellschaft Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), World Bank – Water and Sanitation Program (WB-WSP), United States Agency International Development Philippine Sanitation Alliance (USAID PSA), Basic Needs Services Philippines, Inc. (BNS-BORDA), and Asian Development Bank (ADB).
CAPS’s vision is for it to be “the leading Knowledge Center and Catalyst in Sustainable Sanitation and Solid Waste Management” and they have a mission "To influence policy and decision making of national and local leaders in the field of urban environmental management through cutting edge research and innovative projects tha...
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...oilet system seems to be more convenient and practical, but the Eco-San Toilet System could lead more progress and benefits to our health and the environment.
Works Cited
Grinning Planet, Water Pollution Facts. Website: http://www.grinningplanet.com/2005/07- 26/water-pollution-facts-article.htm
GTZ. Portable Document Format Eco-San on Ecological Sanitation. (n.d.). Retrieved 30 Aug. 2010 from GTZ Website: http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/06-1027.pdf
http://www.caps.ph/
http://www.ecosan.ph/index.php
Lapid, Dan. Personal Interview. 1 Sept. 2010.
Lapid, Dan.Powerpoint Presentation Ecological Sanitation in the Philippines. (n.d.). Retrieved 22 July 2010 from Center for Advanced Philippine Studies Website: http://www.caps.ph/
Recommended Video Presentation about Ecological Sanitation Toilet System. Website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPummZRR2Cg.
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