A Sustainable Septic System Every Survivalist Should Consider

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One area of survival preparation that often gets overlooked is sewage and sewage disposal.

This is odd because all of us need some way to dispose of our sewage, virtually every day we are alive.

Since we are not bears, the areas we can create and dispose of the sewage is greatly limited – usually to a toilet and restroom.

That reality will not change in a survival scenario; we will still have to go and what we produce will have to go somewhere.

But in many survival situations, sewerage systems are compromised and traditional septic tanks have a shelf-life of effectiveness.

Now, thanks to a City in Brazil, a new, sustainable sewage system that is perfect for survivalists in a bug-out situation, homesteaders or as a backup system should the main sewerage system be compromised is available!

It uses tires and gravel and on the next page, we give you the materials list and instructions on how to do it!

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22 Comments

  1. Jacob Lewis said:

    Instructions are sort of easy to get lost in, could definitely use a couple more pictures because the one showed here is the only one in the article.

  2. Travis Michaud said:

    It wouldn’t work in colder climates. It would freeze in winter. Youd have to bury the pipes below the frost.

  3. Theodore Sloat said:

    Just build a trebuchet and launch your troubles into the next neighbourhood.

  4. Thomas Cook said:

    primitive septic systems have the same issues as outhouses did, they can not support the required bacteria to fully decompose human waste. grey water is also an issue incase any chemicals are used in cleaning. a better solution that’s being used right now in 3rd world countries is simply separating the liquid waste from solids (urine from excrement). the urine (being almost completely sterile) is put on trees and shrubs while the solids are collected in a large, covered container, and given invertebrates that are specially cultivated to decompose human/animal waste. the affluent is then collected, and dried in the sun until all the liquid has been evaporated.

  5. Charles Avery said:

    Umm I’m not going to be holding up that long to make a hole that big but I will be covering mine up

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