This is the Place!

After searching, negotiating, and social entrepreneuring, we finally found the spot for our first Soilet in India. So why don't you have ten of those built already, you ask? Well, there is so much more to building something that is sustainable than would first meet the eye. So we found an NGO that works in slum areas that lack the basic necessities: water and sanitation (toilets). When we presented the Soilet to this community, they were excited, and the next day, they selected a poor widow to be the first Indian to use a Soilet. Hopefully many of these slum dwellers are able have a Soilet on their own property. Otherwise, they can use a smelly latrine that requires a truck to suck out the sewage or, more common is the "nature is your bathroom" approach. So tomorrow will be the official ground breaking of India's first Soilet. It would have happened today, but it is the lunar eclipse, which is an unlucky day to start a new project.