As a side project for one of the regional land use planning projects we are working on, we are looking to develop a sustainable community project that involves the use of eco-technologies. On Tuesday, we went to visit IMTA (Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua = Mexican Institute of Water Technology) in Jiutepec, Morelos to see their ecological house and talk to them about the huge community based eco-technology project that are currently promoting in Patzcuaro. The website for their model house can be found here…..http://www.imta.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=447&Itemid=55.
This is a general diagram of the system (if you can make it out)
Obviously in communities, the project focuses on retrofitting existing houses, but for the model at IMTA, they built a brand new house out of adobe. So the house features solar panels for electricity and for heating water, rainwater capture, an ecological bathroom, and ecological sink and place to wash clothes, a mini-wetland treatment system, and finally a family orchard that receives the treated grey water from the house. The treated water is pumped into the orchard through an irrigation system powered by a bicycle.Water heater
Treatment for the water from the sink and from washing clothes
Me on the bicycle pump (bicibomba)
The "orchard". They had just finished harvesting so it looks a little bare (and flooded from the storm the night before)
Solar disinfector for drinking water
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