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The technologies that EcoSur Network has developed: MicroConcrete Roofing Tiles, Puzzolanic Cement, Dry Toilets, earth construction, disaster prevention... are available for all the society, all the documents about this technologies can be downloaded or requested free of charge.
No doubt, some "gadgets" are needed for this technologies to work: vibrating tables, moulds, ball mills... but the knowledge itself, the "how to", the "know-how", is available through assesments of the EcoSur Network experts.

The EcoSur Network, commited with the South-South interchange and with the knowledge sharing that this interchange produces, wants to return the knowledge to the society (through the CC license). With this precedings, The EcoSur Network makes available the technical sheet of the Dry Toilet (Otji Toilet)