Hello Karki & Gautam,

Greetings from Samoa. I will presume the audience are all happy that you both are back on line because of the importance and practicality of your paper.

You said..... "May I request you to little expand your question to make it more clear to us?".  The question is "The soak pit in your flow chart seems redundant as an IBS unit?". OR the soak pit is "stand alone" to borrow Jacky's phase.

In addition you estimated fecal output from users and not urinal output which I will presume would be highly significant, including all flushes as in Jacky's question. Karki, what is the major source of water supply to the community toilet? rain or from the Nepal Water Board? rain would be free and practical while water board would increase cost.

My other question that was not clearly answered  was the final fate of the water from the biodigester after the de-watering process and not how it was removed.

Thanks for your good responses and have a nice day.

Asifo O. Ajuyah (Ph.D.)