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A lot of people in Mexico, especially in rural areas, do not have access to basic sanitation. There are pit latrines or rudimentary flush toilets, which do not solve the problem but rather create new ones. Poor hygiene generates disease, deep latrines contaminate groundwater, and inadequate flush systems discharge wastewater into underground water sources, rivers and lakes. Therefore simple, affordable and ecological solutions are required.
A WETLAND OF INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND THE MOST CONTAMINATED BODY OF FRESH WATER IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Nearly half of the world's population is lacking adequate sanitation.
Decentralized and natural systems are often cheaper to build and
manage. In addition, systems based on separate treatment of excreta and
greywater, often termed ecological sanitation, offer new possibilities
for the design of sustainable systems.
Going green is not only a mantra but also a practice on the 16-acre campus of ACTS Academy of Higher Education in Bangalore. The success story of using renewable energy for lighting the campus is now paving the way for Australian schools to go green.
Deadline: 31 March 2010
(to be published in Feb. 2010)
At this year's Ecological Engineering conference in Paris (EECA, see 
At Frutigen, Switzerland, a new tropical house opens its doors on November 21, 2009. The facility is running on warm water (100 Liters per second) flowing out of the
Lötschberg Base Railway Tunnel. This heat energy is used for the cultivation of fish and a variety of tropical fruit.