Our Community Initiative is now endorsed by World Design Capital
The cross-border sanitation problem and incapacity of the wastewater treatment plant provides a serious design challenge. With the rapid growth in population, increasingly residents of Tijuana are without wastewater plumbing. Urban sanitation is an urgent issue that the two cities, San Diego and Tijuana, need to resolve since pollution threatens the partnership of the two cities. The project will relieve the burden on current infrastructure as a sustainable sanitation approach by providing an ecological solution for waste management. The waterless toilet converts through a composting process liquid and solid waste to fertilizer and soil, providing nutrients needed in common agricultural practices. The project will provide the basic tools for jumpstarting a social ecological system which can transform the Tijuana River Valley into a fertile healthy and productive landscape. Workshops will empower the community to take action to improve their sanitation.
