CMS Nepal [cmsnepal@cms.wlink.com.np] wrote:
>The anaerobic digestion of the latrine waste will yield semi-liquid
>materials - both solid sludge and liquid effluent (also called biogas
>slurry). In the beginning, it was visualized that biogas slurry would
>be collected into two compost pits. It was planned to mix organic
>residue with the biogas slurry in the compost pit by rotation.
>That is, when first pit is completely filled in with slurry and vegetable
>materails, it is left for about 3 months for decomposing and drying.
>Then, the same process would be continued in the second pit.

thank you for describing again the processes involved in your system.

As you can very well understand, if we know the volume of wastewater flow, we can design a system that capable of handling the loading, regulate it, control it and ensure successful operation.

I asked this question for information on the material flow on 3rd April and I unfortunately I have not received a full response for it yet. I hope that in the next 10 days we will be able to do this as well as obtain responses for the other questions raised earlier.

In your paper, you wrote that
>The community latrine was put for common use with effect
>from 15 March 1998.

However when asked how much waste water is generated per day as influent to the digested, you wrote on 8th April:
>To control the volume of water, it was suggested to use
>0.5 litre of water per person for anal cleaning.

Is this a suggestion because the question was raised during this discussion or is this the practice ?

Since the latrine has been in operation since March 1998, dont you have a water meter at the latrine site that reads the water consumption ?

regards
jacky foo