Comments on: Facts and Figures Why Water Could be Worth Fighting For http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/12/facts-and-figures-why-water-could-be-worth-fighting-for/ News & commentary on sustainability, activism, urban planning, politics, and our world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:32:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 16 Unusual International Perspectives on Water : EcoWorldly http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/12/facts-and-figures-why-water-could-be-worth-fighting-for/comment-page-1/#comment-56957 16 Unusual International Perspectives on Water : EcoWorldly Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:45:18 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=1620#comment-56957 [...] 3. Sam Aola Ooko of Nairobi, Kenya sees water as the reason his countrymen are forced to duck as flying bags of defecation are flung into the African bush. Ooko writes, “[Millions of people] do not have water conveniently pumped in and out of their homes for use in flush toilets. Many have no choice but to practice ‘bush defecation’, relieving themselves in ditches, behind the house, down the road, or at any other ‘convenient’ location. … [Also common are] plastic fling bags. In Kibera, a slum with a population of one-million in Nairobi, the fling bags are aptly called ‘flying toilets’!” [...] [...] 3. Sam Aola Ooko of Nairobi, Kenya sees water as the reason his countrymen are forced to duck as flying bags of defecation are flung into the African bush. Ooko writes, “[Millions of people] do not have water conveniently pumped in and out of their homes for use in flush toilets. Many have no choice but to practice ‘bush defecation’, relieving themselves in ditches, behind the house, down the road, or at any other ‘convenient’ location. … [Also common are] plastic fling bags. In Kibera, a slum with a population of one-million in Nairobi, the fling bags are aptly called ‘flying toilets’!” [...]

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]]> By: Osvaldo Gomez http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/12/facts-and-figures-why-water-could-be-worth-fighting-for/comment-page-1/#comment-56955 Osvaldo Gomez Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:51:50 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=1620#comment-56955 We have to start saving water at home. This tensions about water are increasing not only in developing countries but here in the US. If we don't do something about it now, what is happening right now with oil and oil related economic crisis will be a walk in the park compared with what a water crisis will create worldwide. We have to start saving water at home. This tensions about water are increasing not only in developing countries but here in the US. If we don’t do something about it now, what is happening right now with oil and oil related economic crisis will be a walk in the park compared with what a water crisis will create worldwide.

]]> By: Tor http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/09/12/facts-and-figures-why-water-could-be-worth-fighting-for/comment-page-1/#comment-56956 Tor Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:55:40 +0000 http://ecoworldly.com/?p=1620#comment-56956 The last part about not having adequate toilet systems seems like a poor argument. Solar composting toilets are a cheap, eco-friendly method of human waste disposal that does not require the water that our conventional plumbing does require. More conservative use of water in these contention areas both at home and abroad would go a long way in alleviating the water crisis's effects. The last part about not having adequate toilet systems seems like a poor argument.

Solar composting toilets are a cheap, eco-friendly method of human waste disposal that does not require the water that our conventional plumbing does require.

More conservative use of water in these contention areas both at home and abroad would go a long way in alleviating the water crisis’s effects.

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