A more modern setup: A small electric pump in a well sends water to a plastic tank atop the privy, where it's used for shower and flushing...
The cess pit for the toilet is under the corrugated metal. The man in the yellow is standing at the cess pit. The structure in the foreground is the well. The cess pit and well are of identical designs (a concrete pipe, open at the bottom). They are about 30ft apart...
Septic tank, drains to Ekubu's pond. Trash and piggeries line the wetland...
But it is one purty place, eh?...
For contrast, the water supply (desalinization) facility, and laundry, at Vatulele Resort...
The resort's innovative 'wetland'-style sewage treatment ponds, which aren't working. I was told a pipe broke, a temporary inconvenience. Another man told me it's been that way for 3 years. Meanwhile the liquid discharge from the septic tank is simply sprayed out on porous limestone rock that communicates to the sea. This may be a problem...
The resort dump. (Sorry, i'm into infrastructure.) No dump is pretty, but this one was tidy and didn't smell. They separate wastes into various types. Burnables are periodically burned. Glass bottles are smashed and used to fill foundations on new building projects, which i thot was rather clever.
Enroute to Vatulele's famous Red Prawns. Mesake was an excellent guide...
A magical limestone cavern, containing in its darkness a natural sculpture composed solely of rock, water, and light...
Ancient rock art...
