The decreasing quality and quantity of fresh water is one of the biggest challenges for developing countries like Bangladesh. Water used to wash human excreta is not recycled, rather it becomes contaminated by hazardous substances causing serious water-borne diseases”, said Dr. Mujibur Rahman, Professor of Civil Engineering Department of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Dr. Mujibur Rahman was one of the experts, presenting a keynote paper at the workshop titled “Integrated support for sustainable urban environment (ISSUE-2)”, organised by Bangladesh Association for Social Advancement (BASA) and Practical Action- Bangladesh at the Seminar Room of LGED Bhaban in Dhaka on the 26th May.
Waste, generated from human and animal excreta and household garbage should be managed as a resource and can be used as an alternative for chemical fertilisers. By using the proper technology urine and human excreta, that contain many nutrients, can replace the chemical fertilisers now used in the agriculture. Ecosan toilets’ or ecosanitation are using this technology, they do not need precious drinkable water, are easy to install and might become an important contribution to the government’s goal of bringing the whole country under sanitation by 2010. However, monitoring and destroying possible pathogenic bacteria should be part of the technology was the advice of the special guest of the workshop, Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Health Engineering, Mustafizur Rahman.
Sanitation Updates 
Dear friends
how are you? this is sisay from ethiopia where people are having common problems like you have.
there are many people in ethiopia don’t have a cleaning service and water supply for their leaving. i am trying to apply your practise here. would you please advice me waht you have on these ecosan projects?
sisay
There are three web sites where you can find a lot of information on ecosan:
Sustainable Sanitation Alliance – http://www.susana.org/, email: info [at] susana.org
GTZ – Ecosan, http://www.gtz.de/eccosan
EcoSanRes: http://www.ecosanres.org/
In Ethiopia, Arba Minch is one of the pilot cities in the EU-funded ROSA project (Resource-Oriented Sanitation concepts for peri-urban areas in Africa).
Contact information:
ROSA project coordinator, Guenter Langergraber, e-mail guenter.langergraber [at] boku.ac.at
ROSA Project Office, Arba Minch Town Water Service, PO Box 40, Arba Minch, e-mail wudexa [at] yahoo.com
See below a ROSA Eocasan video (in Amharic, there is also an English version)