Cloth diaper versus disposable diaper

It's not clear-cut that disposable diapers are bad for the environment and cloth diapers are good, according to several studies.
Disposable manufacturers say disposable diapers only make up 1 to 2 percent of the solid waste and they have made strides in lessening that by making diapers less bulky and operating pilot recycling programs.
Disposable manufacturers also say that there are hidden costs in using cloth diapers. Cleaning consumes water and energy, and diaper services use gasoline. Growing sufficient cotton to manufacture diapers for the world's babies uses vast quantities of water and the harvesting and processing of the cotton in itself causes pollution.
Cloth diaper advocates say that the costs of cleaning the diapers is small compared to the cost of manufacturing a disposable diaper.
But the two cannot be compared directly. Parents tend to use fewer disposable diapers because they are more absorbent and it is more difficult to tell whether they are wet.

The question arrives: Is there any environmental friendly diaper?

In the battle of disposable diapers vs cloth diapers, people ignore a third option: redesigning the diapers to make them less noxious to the environment. Manufacturers could return to the flushable lining that was part of the design when disposables were first marketed in the early 1960s.
Instead of tossing the whole soiled diaper into the trash, caretakers would remove the liner from the plastic cover, flush it and let the sewage treatment system treat it correctly. The plastic cover could be manufactured from new generations of plastic more degradable than previous synthetics.
Such a diaper would reduce hauling costs and dramatically reduce the danger to ground water that current diapers deposited in landfills present.

As a conclusion currently there is no diaper without negative environmental effects. Surely, cloth diapers use up less energy than disposable diapers, but they are still not a solution for the environmental savvy parents.