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Source:  Bohol Standard, 11/4/07 issue

It would be a disaster if tourists swimming in Bohol’s pristine seas find themselves, alongside with human wastes floating in the sea because many coastal towns and islands have unsanitary or no toilets at all.

The urgency of putting up the right interventions to arrest the sanitation issue in the islets of northern Bohol surfaced Tuesday as concerned residents and non-government organizations shrug why there isn’t much action from government to save the northern seas from fecal coliform contamination and Danajon from an ecological disaster.

And just as the residents of Nocnocan island in Talibon are concerned, Bohol local officials apparently use the bureaucracy as convenient escape to tarry in addressing the stinking issue of water and sanitation in Talibon and Ubay, observers have aired.

Population at Nocnocan is 1981, all cramped in 7 clustered puroks of a total of 309 households. Of them, 262 of the households do not have sanitary toilets or plain toilets at all, reports Ms. Jocelyn Cabanes during the Bohol Press Day at Jjs Seafoods Tuesday.


Cabanes, Nocnocan Elementary School grade II teacher raised the issue of urgency in helping the island people arrest the problem of sanitation as it balloons daily.


“Look at how we pollute our seawater?” she asked.


In the island, you multiply 262 families by 5 people on the average, and that’s the waste (human excreta) that finds its way to the sea every day.


While some 55 families own toilets, these are either unsanitary or water reliant toilets that again impact on the water supply, she added.


The wastes which are not properly disposed can attract flies which also hop on the food, bringing sickness, malnutrition and more poverty, she stressed as she explains the need to immediately address water and sanitation.


“Sanitation refers to the hygienic and proper management and collection, disposal or reuse of human excreta and community liquid wastes to safeguard the health of individuals and communities”, the Philippines Sanitation and Sourcebook Aid defines.


Just as sanitation programs in the island aim to improve health conditions, promote dignity and enhance quality of human life as well as protect the environment, in Nocnocan, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-German Development Foundation (GTZ) piloted the non-water reliant sanitation systems, owing to the fact that water still remains a top problem in the island, said Vicente Delector Jr. of the GTZ.


In this line, a technology called the Urine Diversion Dry Toilet (UDDT) was promoted to conserve on the scarce water supply and control liquid seepage into the sea.

UDDT is an alternative toilet system that uses a double-vault dry toilet which is easily adaptable to diverse cultural needs. A fundamental principle in the system is urine diversion and adequate dessication in an alkaline environment.

The dry toilet consists of two vaults: one in use and the other inactive. The two-receptacle toilet seat facilitates the diversion of urine which passes through a hose and is stored for future fertilizer use while the excrement, which falls into the other chamber is covered with lime or ash and soil after each use.

The ecological dry toilet saves water, is simple and inexpensive to install, requires little space, and can be installed inside or outside of the house. As an additional benefit, the user regularly harvests organic soil conditioner, free of pathogenic organisms, as well as a constant flow of natural fertilizer (urine), Delector emphasizes.

Provincial Planning and Development Administrative Officer and lawyer John Titus Vistal, during the activity’s opening rites said that Bohol has been officially working on ecological sanitation protect for four years.


DILD-GTZ Water and sanitation program has been into technically assisting communities, in this case, Nocnocan as it implemented the pilot project, and in fact non-government organizations who saw the environmental protection component of the project have intended to put up the technology in their assisted communities, reported GTZ authorities here in Bohol.


On the other hand, Capitol, in its fourth year of project involvement has yet to apportion a budget to immediately assist and arrest the sanitation problems of the island communities.


BEMO and the PPDO agree that they have still to lobby for more funds for the procurement of the UDDT and its immediate installation in Ubay and Talibon.


The Poverty Data Monitoring System, a unique data collection and retrieval toll for Bohol planners show that both towns and their island barangays still hug the lines of the towns with barely passable sanitary toilets.


The implications could be rather unnerving with the reality of water contamination spreading in the seas where seaweeds are grown off Danajon, Bohol’s rarest marine environment.


In the school in Nocnocan, Cabanes said only two classrooms have toilets. In her class in Grade 2, some kids have been telling her its their first time to use a sanitary toilet. The idea of bringing eco-sanitation into the schools is one mission she commits, she said.


Dirty, that’s how she capped it, and her efforts may just be bucket in an ocean.


Unless something is done as fast, the lives of the community here may be going foul. (rachiu/PIA)

Maka phobia jud na Ms Grazie,

I remember sa una naligo mi sa Acuna Beach, sa nag enjoy nako langoy2x, I noticed sa akong likod naay nag lutaw2x nga yellow submarine...

eWwwwWWwww! traumatic!

Boracay also encountered that problem in the late 90's, I think. It almost crippled the whole industry didto because of that coliform issue.

ayayay yuckyyak!  unya maka inom pa jud ta tubig ba sa dagat? nananana wa pa ra ba ko kapanihapon hahaahahah

ahahahaha!

naa pa unta ko i-share nga laing yuck story nimo

pero unya na kung mahuman naka panihapon

yuman nko panihapon, ms c2! hahahah

Nangaligo ming mga manag-agaw sa swimming pool, elementary pa ko adto...

akong male cousin nanghambog nga maayo siya mo dive,

pag surface na niya after pag dive, nag bitay jud iyang sip-on hahaha

didto pa raba sa akong atubangan...

dayon gi sikma ra pud niya sa swimming pool...

ang sip-on pa raba jud kay kanang yellowish-greenish, very thick and viscous and just all-around gross

yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! hahahaha

kon naay mo reklamo, within topic pa bya ni ha kay we are talking about "unsanitary" hahahaha

Kaning sip-on jod.....hahaha timing kaayo maoy akong pagsuyop sa ramen da......waaaaaaaaa.. undang sa ko kaon.....sige pa estorya pa.

haahahhaa... nahinumdom na hinoon kos Pasil da! nangaligo mi sa dagat unya pag-tunga pa galukdo na ang akong ulo ug tubol... waaaaaaaaaaa!

Quote from: swakee on November 11, 2007, 01:23:08 PM
haahahhaa... nahinumdom na hinoon kos Pasil da! nangaligo mi sa dagat unya pag-tunga pa galukdo na ang akong ulo ug tubol... waaaaaaaaaaa!

Swakee na nisamot,dinagko na man hinuon ni..hahahahaha

hehehehe... mao jud Orchid! you know sa pantalan sa Maribojoc daghang mga balay baya nga gitukod sa kilid sa pantalan nya walay CR... unsanitary kaau oi!

Tagaan na unta na ug action oy kay makadaut pod na sa panglawas..Imbis kay maligo aron ma presko ta,maglukdo na man hinuon.
Hayyyy kanus-a pa man?

lood xa? nya ang tumoy baya sa pantalan kay daghang mga tawo mangaligo... yuckksss!

Ayayay naka hinomdom jod ko anang yellow submarine sa ka inggit sa una.Yuckkk gyod kaayo dile raba motiglom molutaw gyod.
Maayo unta ang atung gobyerno mag asikaso sa mga unsanitary toilets kay aron wala nay daghan estorya sa publiko.

 

This unsanitary toilet story ruins my sanity.

Miss GLeN,

yuck btaw kaayo no,

bisan karon mag recall ko kasukaon gihapon ko,

pero wala'y makalabaw ni swakee nga naglukdo jud

Sorry for reviving this very insatiable thread once more.

I have a very yucky experience at the chocolate hills at my younger age. We were sliding by the hill, riding a coconut branch (palwa) when I felt something wet at my back.

"It is Human Igit painted all over my back til my hair, yuck". Naa pa gyod daghan un-digested nga liso sa bayabas, murag binangkal.

The sad part is there is no water to wash. I have to walk 2 kilometers for the nearest water.

So, this thread reminds me of two Beatle Songs "Fool on the Hill" & "Yellow Submarine".

hala jud! ipadayon nlang gud nato ang ka unsanitary ani na thread hahahaha

hahaha ang yellow submarine ni dunggo sa chocolate hills.

Actually, if you saw the MTV of the Yellow Submarine, the submarine is actually flying, not floating.

Macky kadtong tag iya sa submarine gikan pa gyud to namayabas! wahahahhahahha

pero nganong mo lupad ang yellow sub nimo Macky???

Actually, that Yellow submarine was a cartoon animation with music by the Beatles in the late 60's. The captain of the Yellow submarine was Seargent Peppers and it actually is flying. It was in a psychidelic art style of drawing. I was young then when I saw that movie. Maybe at that time, Bambi was already dating in theatres, Melrose in particular.

Ang hadlok ani ron kung ang mga airlines dili na mo follow sa norms of disposing toilet waste and will dispose it in mid air. Daghang mga igo sa atomic bomb.

Re: Ang hadlok ani ron kung ang mga airlines dili na mo follow sa norms of disposing toilet waste and will dispose it in mid air. Daghang mga igo sa atomic bomb.


waahaahhahhahahahhhaha
that could save the airlines some money  and  would give us descent snacks instead of a pack of roasted peanut...

Looking at the bright side folks, Tubol (I don't mean Tubag Bohol) is not bad at all. As my mother said, that is the best natural organic Fertilizer.

Paita pud nang, nanglutaw oi pero tinuod jud raba.. naa man gani ma sindulan pud.

Nakahinumdum mo adtong controversy involving the Dave Matthews Band a year or so ago...

Ang tour bus sa band, ning hunong sa usa ka tulay sa Chicago, and they disposed their 'fecal waste' didto sa river...

ensakto pud maoy paglabay sa ferry nga puno sa mga pipol nga ga tour2x pud sa river...

naka experience intawon ang mga tawo ug 'chocolate shower'

eeeWwwwWwww!

diha ka C2? kuyawa fud ato xa? that was a real shitty day!!!!

Quote from: swakee on November 14, 2007, 12:40:55 PM
diha ka C2? kuyawa fud ato xa? that was a real shitty day!!!!

Bwahahahaha!

Sakto kaayo ka Swaks, shitty day jud tong adlawa!

The band had to pay the city of Chicago 150k para mapasaylo sila sa ilang gibuhat

150k ra? dapat gipaulanan pod sila? hahaha joke lang.

mao pud unta noh, ms grazie?

This evening while walking my two daughters across the street from their school on Galleres Strt., I and them had witnessed a bunch of cleansing water pouring out from the drain from a pension house onto the street and running down towards the dagat at JJ Seafoods?

Even my 2nd grade daughter shouted "Thats bad for the fish in the sea".

It smelled of bleach and pine-sol and was as white as a gallon of milk.

It is my understanding that the permits issued by the mayor in this city include proper handling of waste water and proper transport of waste water to a designated area?

Precious, ka buotan sa imong little girl...(can you please write this down and give it to her? Please?)

I really admired her concern, it reminded me when i was her age, that i was so worried of the extinction of the fish in the ocean. You must have noticed the way fishermen catch fish in our country, (which is against the law in the US) using fish nets with the smallest holes? and it caught the baby fish as well? I was already wondering at that age if the fishes would one day be all gone...   


BTW, Happy Thanksgiving Week to you...
   

Thank you for the compliment for the little one and also Happy turkey day also with you and your family.
(I will show her your reply later today after she comes home from school.)

I hear what your saying about the fish.

Its amazing as here you can eat a crab thats more smaller then a silver dollar coin, back home its a hefty time plus a fine. LOL!

I have a hard time in wanting to eat any fish smaller then my kamote, the fish here are very tiny in the wet markets.
I admit I am very fond of munching down on dried fish though

P.S. I am almost tempted to buy the Turkeys at the pet store to eat for Christmas time. its hard to find Turkey in the stores here. Turkey withdrawal....(drooling now!)

binsi, greetings to you, hope your holiday so far has been going well for you and the family. I love the yellow picture as yellow is my favorite color next to orange.

I showed the blog you wrote for my dotr she hugged me and gave me a kiss and said "Thank You mom. your friend is nice!"

Our street drains smell reallybad here and most of us would like to know where it is getting drained into?

This is ongoing problem everwhere in the Philippines.