Just a couple of quick questions. My daughter would like to use this example for a school economics project. Each group of 3 students has an initial investment of 75.000 USD, to invest in a business idea, which will contribute to ecomonic growth. She would particualary like, in addition, to contribute to the environment and eco friendly waste management. Her business idea comes from the fact that in Ncaragua, where we live, one of the growth ares in business is tourism. Yet the very basic of services .e.g. toilets, are lacking. There is a small town which has seen some sustained growth in tourism, yet there are no toilets, so the idea of a deluxe, top of the range -clean, hyigenic toilet mall with other services, would be ideal. Cruise ships come into this small port, and we are not quite sure what they do other than go to the toilet before disembarking and cross the legs the rest of the day!!!

So first, would an initial investoment of 75,000 USD be sufficient to put up the first toilet block. Can you send some specifications. We would like to include hot showers, using solar panels… This would a service for those bathers who want to have a nice warm shower after being in the sea. A side business would be renting umbrellas and deck chairs on the beach, together with a shop that would provide basics for wise sun bathing, and some eco souvenirs, including recycled paper. In other words, we would like to give the day tripper or the cruise line passenger, and the local community a top of the range quality service, and do our bit for the environment.

Any information would be very welcome, especially how the IKO works, for the environment )how have the dry urinals worked_ Is there acceptance of this. Ideally if you could send me the presentation that you gave with the wonderful pictures, it would be very useful to show, where the ·good idea· came from.

Finally, we are against the clock on this one… so any information asap, would be most gratefully appreciated.

Best
Irene