unities' wastewater as a whole. The Federal and State Government should give great benefits to cities who do accomplish this and perhaps help pay for the installation of a wastewater garden. Arcata's Marsh would be a good example of a wastewater garden that treats the communities' wastewater.Another alternative to help prevent the wasting of clean water is to implement composting toilets that use virtually no water. One type of a composting toilet system is called the carousel. It consists of a fixed outer container and a revolvable inner drum or "carousel." The inner carousel is divided into four separate composting chambers with drain holes in the bottom. All of the excrement, toilet paper and vegetable scraps go into once chamber at a time. After the first chamber is filled the carousel turns to the second chamber, and so on until all four chambers are filled. In the warm, moist environment, aerobic microbes will, over time, transform the solids into safe and valuable oxidized dry humus, a stable nutrient for plants. The humus can be buried on your property to benefit trees and plants or a septic pumping contractor can remove it for you (Carousel 1-3).This is also a fairly expensive system to start up, but will save people money in the long run and will benefit their trees and plants. People will also be conserving lots of clean water and helping to cope with the world's clean water dilemma.Another alternative to conserving our clean water is to put in more efficient irrigation systems in many of the grain producing countries around the world. In many places, less than one third of the water used for farming actually waters the plants. The rest is wasted. A few places, like the U.S., have come up with very efficient irrigation systems that are 90% efficient.If we could get other countries around the world to implement these systems, enormous amounts of clean water would be conserved. The problem is they do not have the ...
