Over the past five years, more than 500 ECOSAN toilets have been constructed in Nepal, and 97% of them are still in proper use in the sense that the toilets are clean and well maintained and the compost is being used as fertilizer for agricultural crops.

To date three ECOSAN latrine systems have been promoted in Nepal all based on separating urine from faeces and composting the faeces. These pictures (all from WaterAid Nepal) show some of the different styles of ECOSAN pan and systems in use in Nepal.

Based on the paper Ecological Sanitation Latrines: An Experience of Nepal, by Kabir Rajbhandari, WaterAid Nepal, presented at the South Asian Sanitation and Hygiene Practitioners' Workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 29-31 January 2008.

Related news: Siddhipur community constructs eco-friendly future, Source Bulletin 47 feature, Feb 2007

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