Estimad@s participantes de la Red Alianza para el Saneamiento Sostenible (www.susana.org):
Junto con saludarles, queremos responder a la inquietud de por qué el costo del manual de construcción de una baño seco de doble cámara.
Hemos intentado buscar financiamiento para su publicación, pero no recibimos respuesta positiva a ello, de manera que luego decidimos ponerlo a la venta para financiar las horas profesionales invertidas de redacción y diseño involucrados en la producción del manual.
Somos una organización pequeña, autogestionada que no recibe aportes ni del estado ni de organizaciones privadas e internacionales, nuestro financiamiento proviene de la realización de cursos, talleres, asesorías, y de la venta de artefactos de baños secos.
Nuestro interés por cierto es sensibilizar, promover y divulgar información relacionada con saneamiento ecológico y lo hacemos a través de nuestro sitio web www.sanitario-ecologico.com y también a través de nuestras redes locales.
Fraternalmente,

Equipo Saneamiento Cooperativa TerritorioSur


Dear participants of the Network s Alliance for Sustainable Sanitation (www.susana.org):
Together with hello, we want to address the concern of why the cost of manual construction of a dual-chamber dry toilet.
We tried to find funding for publication, but did not receive a positive response to it, so then we decided to put it up for sale to fund professional hours invested in drafting and design involved in the production of the manual.
We are a small, self-managed does not receive contributions or the state or private and international organizations, our funding comes from the completion of courses, workshops, consulting, and selling dry toilets artifacts.
Our interest of course is to sensitize, promote and disseminate information related to ecological sanitation and we do through our website www.sanitario-ecologico.com and also through our local networks.
Fraternally,
Christian Palma A. ; Vicente Gallardo M.
Cooperative Sanitation Equipment TerritorioSur

Thanks Hector
Regards, Detlef

Dear Detlef,

I am sorry to hear that the posting did not come as appropriate for you. Let me just clarify in order to avoid further misunderstandings.

It is not the SuSanA secretariat who is promoting this publication, but a Chilean organization (TierraSur) who is advertising their manual. We received a notification from staff of the Stockholm Environmental Institute recommending to spread the word about this document.

The reason for the post is that the original message was received in Spanish. I translated it into English in case people in seek/need of a product/service of such nature were aware of it.

Nobody is obliged to buy anything they don't want/need/like. As far as we know, these are compiled experiences from Chile and TierraSur is simply trying to raise funding to cover costs.

As much as we would like for information to always remain free of charge, some organisations have to find ways to raise fundings or cover costs. This is the reason why I posted the notice under the section "Persons or companies offering their skills or products". Some might come as free of charge, while others might not. We simply represent the medium to inform about it and let the users decide by themselves.

Furthermore, the SuSanA forum has no intention to start charging money for its use in the future, you don't have to worry about it.

Kind regards,

Hector


[Posted by Hector]

Re: New Construction Manual for double-chamber dry composting toilets !Only for money?!

Dear Moderators and "USERS" of SUSANA,

SUSANA's-Know-How - Only for money?

Is this kind of promotion the future of SUSANA in mid-term or long-term?

as it been posted by SUSANA's office at GIZ:
"...This manual has a cost of $15 USD or €11 Euros and is delivered via e-mail in PDF format. The promotional value until September 15th is of $10 USD or €8 Euros...."

In long-term, maybe 5 cent per viewing SUSANA web-page, payable per Paypal...?

Best Regards,
Detlef SCHWAGER

With 10 years of experience building dry composting toilets in several places in Chile, "Cooperativa TerritorioSur" has the pleasure of presenting the new "Construction manual for a double-chamber dry composting toilet" (in Spanish).



These restrooms can be attached and customized to the household in order to integrate them at floor-level from the original building. Its design is easy to adapt to different kinds of household buildings and to diverse situations.

This manual contains 41 pages in PDF format of all necessary information to build such restrooms.

Content of the manual:

- Presentation
- Chambers dimensions
- Location and slope of the terrain
- Materials and tools
- Cleanliness of the place
- Layout
- Excavation and insulation
- Foundations and fillings
- Radier
- Chambers, ladders and sill
- Inner lining
- Slab
- Drainage installation
- Degreasing chamber
- Soakaway
- Metallic doors
- Chambers ventilation
- Exterior insulation
- Separating bowl
- Booth
- Planimetry of a dry composting toilet model and design options

This manual has a cost of $15 USD or €11 Euros and is delivered via e-mail in PDF format. The promotional value until September 15th is of $10 USD or €8 Euros.

If you are interested in acquiring this manual, you can order it via e-mail to the following address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please indicate the country where you are writing from. We will give you the instructions and information for a bank deposit/transfer and then we will send you the manual on PDF format via e-mail.

We hope you find this material useful for your current personal or collective projects.

With kind regards,

Christian Palma Allende, Environmental Engineer
Vicente Gallardo Montecinos, Biochemical Engineer

Cooperativa de Trabajo para el Desarrollo Sustentable TerritorioSur - Chile
Unidad de Agua y Saneamiento
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
www.sanitario-ecologico.com


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