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The Global Dry Toilet Association of Finland is a registered Finnish association founded in 2002 to promote the use of dry toilets.
Our vision is to make dry toilets an essential part of sustainable development, thus securing clean waters and a healthy environment for future generations. Our mission is to introduce functioning dry toilets together with controlled management of toilet waste and to make people aware of the benefits of dry sanitation.
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The Dry Toilet 2009
The 3rd International Dry Toilet Conference will be held in the middle of August 2009 in Finland in Tampere University of Technology.
Finnish drytoilets brochure
The Global Dry Toilet Club published a new brochure which presents the
Finnish dry toilet manufacturers. The brochure was published in the beginning
of March. The brochure is available also in the internet. Finnish
Dry toilets brochure (pdf, size 1,7 Mb).
More information available on the Zambia project and the demonstration
sites
The web pages have been updated. More information available on the demonstration
sites and the Zambia
project.
The ideal gift for Christmas: a toilet
At Christmas, what can you give someone who already has everything they
need? Why not buy on their behalf something that someone else might need
desperately - a toilet. A scheme run by the Global Dry Toilet Club of
Finland allows sponsors to support a low-tech sanitation scheme in rural
Zambia. More in the
article of SixDegrees
The Dry Toilet 2006
The Second International Dry Toilet Conference was held August 16 - 19 in Tampere, in Finland. The conference was attended by 140 participants from 34 countries. We thank all the participants for making a successful conference!
Final summary of the conference (pdf)
For those who were sponsored to the conference:
Travelgrant Application
Remember to include original receipts of the flying tickets and boarding passes and send them enclosed to address:
Global Dry Toilet Club of Finland
P. O. Box 225
33100 Tampere
Finland
A Guide to Sanitation and Hygiene for Those Working in Developing Countries
You can upload the guide here (pdf, 1206 kB).
Dry Toilets to Zambia
Dry Toilet Club of Finland has started a three year project to build dry
toilets to Zambia, Kaloko region. For more information, contact project
co-ordinator Sari Huuhtanen, sambia(a)huussi.net. Project is financed
by Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
Dry toilet guide in Ukrainian!
New Dry Toilet Guide in Ukrainian is now available in pdf
form (1700KB).
Guía de los baños secos!
New Dry Toilet Guide in Spanish (Guía de los baños secos) is now available in pdf form (1324KB).
Dry toilet Guide in Estonian
now available! The Kuivkäimlajuhend is partially based on the Dry Toilet Maintenance and Output Management Guide published in finnish earlier in 2006. |
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