THE SOLUTION TO: Higher Taxes for sewer replacement and repair Reduced Services for libraries and pools Higher Public Debt High Unemployment Sewage in Basements Polluted Rivers Sink Holes Drought
Carousel Compost Toilet This model uses no water, so cuts our water bill in half, converts 95% of our wastes into odorless gas and sweet-smelling garden soil. Take a sniff. NSF approved, less maintenance than any flush toilet. Never break down. Go ahead, lean over the lid and smell the new earth. Isolated for two years, with air
Excreta Los Angeles’ water shortages can become surpluses within a few years, by adoption of a simple tool, the compost toilet. Half of clean household water is pooped and flushed. By contrast, waterless toilets convert excrement into safe, sweet-smelling garden soil. They’re aerated, so they outgas odorless methane. Installed presently in rural parks, they’re NSF-approved, common in Scandinavia, and soon inevitable in our desert cities. Building codes, take note. The L.A. basin's earliest people pooped on the ground where they wandered. Then early settlers dug smelly holes. Since 1863 Angelenos had socialized their excrement-- turd in sewers-- and drained it to rivers and creeks. They learned to operate and repair flush crappers. This became normal. Now, when challenged, it became sacred.
passing through, humanure becomes clean sanitary soil. If every building had these we'd save billions in facilities and fuel. That money could instead be spent tfor schools, libraries, swimming pools, parks, transit and ecolonization. The Los Angeles modem MWD sewer system brings clean water hundreds of miles from the Sierra Mountains, purifies it for drinking, pumps it over hills and into homes where the Angels shit into it. From there fouled water is pumped to treatment plants. At these reeking stations the mass was mixed with industrial toxins and greases, screened, then attacked with chemicals. The "clarified" liquid is poured into the Pacific Ocean, to the delight of swimmers. Remaining solids, 1,500,000 pounds per day, poisoned beyond redemption, are trucked 120 miles north. There it lays, an ever expanding gift to future civilizations, oozing into groundwater. The city budget for water and facilities required $250 million for the East Central Interceptor (ECIS). But even as sewer lines expand and extend, flush toilets will become silent, and removed. This drought plan can begin now or when it is too late.