Marlies sends us a bunch of pictures and an interesting story on how bio gas toilets in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya are being used:
Just the other day on a visit to Kibera Slum I came across this interesting bio gas latrine which is being set up for Kibera people as a response to lacking community toilets. The sanitation situation in Kibera is really really poor! There are a couple of community toilets which where set up after the shooting of the Constant Gardener but only a few years later these are in bad shape! Again, they cost 3/= per visit which is really above of what a typical Kibera inhabitant can afford. Just sum up what it will cost for 5 visits per day for a family of five! So the bio gas latrine is a really good option, since it will generate a little income to make the toilets free of charge.
Here are some pictures:
IslamOnline.net has a great writeup on how these work.
[NOTE: If you have any images, stories or reports you'd like others to know about, you can contact us through the AfriGadget contact form. - Thanks Marlies!]
New images! (July 17, 2007). Thanks to Christian Rieck and Marlies:
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Excellent – I’ve been looking for info on biodigesters using human waste. It’s such a huge resource that should be treated as an opportunity, not as a problem.
I’d love to know more so I can add it to the resource at Appropedia – or even better, have the people involved in it add it directly to Appropedia’s sanitation page (or make a new page).
How is this design for cost-effectiveness? Is it subsidized? Whose initiative was it?
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Biogas latrines are nice, but pls also have a look at this PDF I received through the ecosan mailing list the other day:
Toilets That Make Compost:
Low-cost, sanitary toilets that produce valuable compost for crops in an
African context
By Peter Morgan, Aquamor, Harare, Zimbabwe
To download a copy (NB 114 pages, 6.5 MB)
http://www.ecosanres.org/toilets_that_make_compost.htm
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I want to build biogas digester at home , in order to build the digester, i need to have the drawing. If you have the drawing of old model type digester, I
really apriceate.
The Kenyan Newspaper “The Standard” today mentioned this Biogas latrine in Kibera in an interesting article.
While it certainly is an improvement, the system still isn’t 100% sustainable as there’s no real concept for the digested sludge.
Oh, and pls make sure to check out this interesting video on the Biogas latrine!
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this are real and practical solutions any one out who explain to me all that is required in the setting of bio-gas generator.plse contact me on this email add:-alfkamarey@hotmail.com thanks.
this are real and practical solutions any one out there who explain to me all that is required in the setting of bio-gas generator.plse contact me on this email add:-alfkamarey@hotmail.com thanks.
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Any one in East and central Africa who wants an industrial Bio gas plant contact me-Design,supply and fix.
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Instresting but yours see the work in Bolivia, with de Latrines to 4000 up the sea, and use to cooking biogas, and see this web site.
http://www.tecnologiasendesarrollo.org
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