Environmentally friendly toilets for Ion Creanga high from Soltanesti village of Nisporeni

The students and teachers of the Ion Creanga lycee from Soltanesti village, Nisporeni district, will have environmentally friendly toilets. They do not use water, do not pollute the environment as the waste can be used to as fertilizers. The new sanitation units of the school were inaugurated On October 15, Info-Prim Neo has learnt from the Swiss Development and Cooperation Agency (SDC). The toilets have been manufactured as part of a program called “Water and Sanitation” by SDC. They are the result of the cooperation of the Nisporeni District Council, the mayor office of Soltanesti, of the school management and of the SDC agency. An NGO, Ecotox, has instructed the teachers and pupils how to maintain the sanitation blocks. Part of the project is building a water cleaning facility to treat the waste water from the school and the nearby kindergarten. The functioning principle of these toilets is that they hold the urine and feces in separate compartments. Thus they hold in the smell and after a storing period they can be used to fertilize fields. Unlike the outdoor toilets – most frequent in Moldova’s rural areas – the EcoSan toilets do not pollute the underground waters. Worth of mentioning is that 80% of the village wells in Moldova are polluted and cause severe health problems. . Unlike the usual toilets the EcoSan ones do not use the average 27 liters of water a day per one person and don’t need to get connected to drainage. So the EcoSan units are a more accessible solution for Moldovan villages, where mots of the people do not have access to safe sanitation. The SDC earlier built environmentally friendly toilets in Rusestii Noi village of Ialoveni. The SDC’s Water and Sanitaiton Program supports the improvement of water supply and drainage system since 2001, having cooperated with local people and authorities.