Curriculum Connections:

• Grade 5: Ecosystem cycling
  • Activity: Compost
• Grades 6-12: Learn about viruses and bacteria and the “Properties of Life”
  • Activity: Is It Alive?
• Grades 9-12: PBS Activity—Understanding your water: From source to tap and back

Additional Resources:

• Hawaiʻi Cesspool Problems and Solutions
  • UH News: Don’t flush, burn it! Incineration toilet could solve cesspool problem
  • UH News: Harmful staph, bacteria in Hilo Bay increase with rainfall runoff
  • Civil Beat: Hawaii’s Cesspool Problem Continues To Bubble Up As EPA Cracks Down
  • Hawaiʻi Business Magazine: Finally Tackling a Crappy Situation
  • Ka Pili Kai: Cesspools in Paradise
• Hawaiʻi Department of Health
  • Cesspool Website
  • A Multi-state Regulation and Policy Survey of Onsite Wastewater Treatment System Upgrade Programs
    • Published September 2019, written by Michael Mezzacapo
• US Environmental Protection Agency
  • Cesspools in Hawaiʻi
  • Septic System Information and Graphics
• Water Resources Research Center
  • Educational Resources
• Wastewater Alternatives & Innovations — for Cinderella Toilets and more!
  • WAI—WaiCleanWater.org
• On-site Sewage Disposal Systems in Hawaiʻi (Links to interactive maps)
  • Kauaʻi
  • Oʻahu
  • Molokaʻi
  • Maui
  • Hawaiʻi Island

   

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Contact information:
Kanesa Seraphin, Ph.D.
kanesa@hawaii.edu

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