I said, ‘Can we try that here in the Philippines? You customize it to our conditions because the conditions there are different – it’s temperate there while we are tropical,” he said.
Sales said the VHFS had been installed on the four communal toilets in a coastal community in Bucana area, where residents previously lacked access to toilet facilities, polluting the seas.
A report by the Philippine Statistics Authority showed 67.8% of the households used improved and non-shared toilet facilities while 26.6% of the households used shared sanitation facilities.
“On the other hand, 5% of the households used non-improved sanitation facilities and the remaining 0.8% of the households have open defecation sanitation facilities,” Sales said.
He said the technology filters out the waste materials and releases significantly clean water into the sea, as it reduces sulfate, nitrate, coliform, and total suspended solids by 90 to 95%.[]
