Re: [DIYbio] DIY Composting toilets & California's worst drought ever

That's pretty cool.  I assume your water has been tested?  You could be getting some good nitrate liquid fertilizers out of the deal too with some upgrades.  The other aspect of hacking toilets of course is to add biomedical sensors.  Some Japanese vendors have had fancy smart-toilets in the market for years which attempt these features.  I'm not too familiar with the success rates of their technology.  It is definitely an area that is overlooked in the diy area and in the west in general.


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On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 3:46:54 PM UTC-7, Simon Field wrote:
I have a guilt-free flushing toilet.
I have a 310 foot deep well.
I pump the water up using solar power.
I have a leach field six feet deep, where the septic overflow goes.

So I pump water from 310 feet, and put it back into the ground under the meadow in front of my house. After a few years of percolating through rock and sand, it ends up in the Silicon Valley water supply, just like the water would have if I hadn't pumped it from the well.

:-)

 

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