SuSanA- SuSanA News Mail March 2013 online March 19, 2013Dear SuSanA members and partners, This monthly e-mail informs you about the latest news from SuSanA and the SuSanA partners. This e-mail is sent to 3593 subscribers and contains the following topics: 1. Status quo analysis of SuSanA 2008 to 2012 summary now available online 2. Add your voice to the next 5 years of SuSanA 3. The 4C networking campaign 4. Vide […]
- SuSanA News Mail January 2013 online January 31, 2013This monthly e-mail informs you about the latest news from SuSanA and the SuSanA partners. This e-mail is sent to 3681 subscribers and contains the following topics: 1. SuSanA's sixth Anniversary 2. Bill Melinda Gates Foundation grants now open for discussion on SuSanA forum. Join in! 3. The world we want! The post-2015 WASH sub-consultation 4. Make pos […]
- SuSanA News Mail November 2012 online November 22, 2012The monthly news mail informs you about the latest news from SuSanA and the SuSanA partners. For more frequent news updates please visit our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/susana.org (http://www.facebook.com/susana.org) or check the SuSanA discussion forum http://www.forum.susana.org (http://www.forum.susana.org). This monthly e-mail informs you about […]
- FSM2 conference in October 2012 in Durban, South Africa November 16, 2012Read more... (http://www.susana.org/lang-en/conference-and-training-materials/materials-of-conferences/2012-conferences/243-2012-conferences/781-fsm2)
- SuSanA News Mail September 2012 online September 16, 2012The monthly news mail informs you about the latest news from SuSanA and the SuSanA partners. For more frequent news updates please visit our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/susana.org (http://www.facebook.com/susana.org) or check the SuSanA discussion forum http://www.forum.susana.org (http://www.forum.susana.org). This news mail is sent to 3120 subscr […]
- SuSanA News Mail March 2013 online March 19, 2013
- Duncan Mara’s Sanitation Blog
- Good question! January 30, 2013The cover of the 10 January issue of The Economist:
- World Toilet Day November 19, 2012Today is World Toilet Day – see here and also ThePublicToilet.com. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in association with Domestos, has released this report which is well worth reading: Toilets for Health.
- No toilet, no bride! November 16, 2012In the UK Daily Mail of 23 October: No toilet? Then no bride − the Indian government's bizarre new campaign to increase indoor lavatories. Well, that’s one way of promoting sanitation!
- Top three toilets? October 31, 2012From the Gates Foundation website (dated 14 August): ‘Bill Gates Names Winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge’:California Institute of Technology in the United States received the $100,000 first prize for designing a solar-powered toilet that generates hydrogen and electricity. Loughborough University in the United Kingdom won the $60,000 second place […]
- Agroforestry and arborloos August 8, 2012In a letter to The Economist (28 July 2012) Tony Simons, Director General of the World Agroforestry Centre in Nairobi, writes that, to reduce hunger and promote food security in the Sahel, agroforestry is the way forward. As he notes, “Trees provide not only ecological resilience but also cash income, energy, environmental services, fodder for animals and nu […]
- Erdos: “World's biggest eco-toilet scheme fails” July 31, 2012“The dry toilets in Inner Mongolia's Daxing eco-community have been quietly replaced after three years of bad smells, health problems and maggots.” Oops! See the full entry in the Guardian Environment Network (30 July 2012).
- Fossas alternas July 30, 2012IRC has on its website a good photo-sequence on how to build a fossa alterna: “This photo story shows you how to construct a fossa alterna, how to empty it and how to process the compost. After 12−18 months of composting it is safe to empty a fossa alterna toilet and use the compost as fertilizer for your garden soil”. Fossas alternas? Read Peter Morgan’s To […]
- Rural sanitation July 27, 2012What Does It Take to Scale Up Rural Sanitation? by Eduardo Perez and published earlier this month by the Water and Sanitation Program is an important document because, as the report’s webpage says, “Today, 2.5 billion people live without access to improved sanitation. … Of those without access to sanitation, 75 percent live in rural areas [emphasis added].” […]
- The 2011 Pumphandle Lecture July 26, 2012Have a look at the John Snow Society’s 2011 Pumphandle Lecture Epidemiology for the Bottom Billion – where there’s not even a pump handle to remove! by Hans Rosling who’s a professor at the Karolinska Institute and also chairman of the Gapminder Foundation. An excellent lecture. Check out the Gapminder videos − you’ll find some pretty stunning ones!Who’s Joh […]
- Global WatSan costs July 26, 2012WHO published in May this year Global costs and benefits of drinking-water supply and sanitation interventions to reach the MDG target and universal coverage by Dr Guy Hutton. Here’s the Overview from the WHO webpage for the report:This report updates previous economic analyses conducted by the World Health Organization, using new WSS coverage rates, costs o […]
- Good question! January 30, 2013
- SuSanA Forum
- Re: Toilet System for Waste Separation and Dewaterization (TU Delft, The Netherlands) - by: jansengerwin May 23, 2013The experimental set-up of the plasma gasifier at the TU Delft was shown on German television and dubbed as the 'the toilet of the future'. www.wdr.de/tv/quarks/sendungsbeitraege/2...ette_der_zukunft.jsp
- Re: IWA Urban Sanitation Initiative - Demonstration cities - by: tmsinnovation May 23, 2013Hi All Let us get some SuSanA working group 6 members to contribute to this thread and further refine this idea. As we need to share good examples of cities that are being innovative and progressive in solving their respective sanitation challenges. While bearing in mind that the examples are more than likely of cities that we see to be on the right track an […]
- Peter Morgan wins 2013 World Water Prize - by: arno May 23, 2013GREAT NEWS FOR INNOVATIVE SANITATION AND WASH. Peter Morgan chosen as 2013 World Water Prize laureate.www.siwi.org/prizes/stockholmwaterprize/laureates/2013-2/
- Re: Festival toilets - by: Florent May 23, 2013Dear Members, I was reading all post about this new topic “Festival toilets” and I would like to present French situation about mobile dry toilets in festival or yard situation. In fact, 2 years ago TDM began a brainstorming discussion about mobile dry toilets situation. TDM as a RAE’s member (mentioned by Florian, just to resume that this network is based o […]
- Re: re.source: Mobile Sanitation Services for Dense Urban Slums (Stanford University, USA) - by: llekubu May 23, 2013Dear Kory, Your prototype mobile toilet solution for urban slums is vey innovative indeed,but i have certian reservation which i would like some clarity with: 1. The level of payment for basic services like sanitation has been very low as you have experienced with your project since this services are presumed as basic rights and supported by MDG's,there […]
- Re: Energy recovery & waste treatment with floating biodigesters (Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia - LLEE) - by: JKMakowka May 23, 2013Ahh, interesting. I recently looked into floating plastic-bag biodigestors as that seemed like a great way to avoid the (apparently in Uganda significant) problems with external damage to the plastic tube which is caused (by anecdotal evidence) through playing children & rodents (and probably other forms of neglect and misuse). However except for a few s […]
- Re: Energy recovery & waste treatment with floating biodigesters (Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia - LLEE) - by: robhughes May 23, 2013I've attached a recent Masters Thesis on the Environmental Sustainability of Floating Biodigesters on the Tonle Sap.
- Re: Exploring New Gen Technology for eToilets - by: muench May 23, 2013Dear Bincy, I hope your work is progressing well. I just saw this link via the Twitter account of WASHplusinfo (@washplusinfo), which talks about 400 toilets in India called "Delight toilets" with backing by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Is this the same as your project or another one? If it is not your project, then what do you think of […]
- Re: What is Terra Preta Sanitation (TPS) all about? Hype or ingenious? - by: JKMakowka May 23, 2013This document has even more details about wood vinegar, which is supposed to have beneficial effects on composting and also odor reducing properties when applied to manure. Now, I have to say to all sounds a bit like a "wonder" solution, so I am a bit skeptical to be honest... but at least here in Uganda a LOT of charcoal is produced and AFAIK none […]
- Looking for Scholarship - by: najibnoori May 23, 2013Dear All; I'm an Afghan engineer that working with GIZ in Afghanistan in water and sanitation projects.Now I want to get master degree in water and sanitation field and I'm looking for scholarship,It would be good if you guide me. Kind Regards Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it […]
- Re: Toilet System for Waste Separation and Dewaterization (TU Delft, The Netherlands) - by: jansengerwin May 23, 2013
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Togo – children design handwashing stations
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I really like this design totally sustainable and created by kids its definitely the way forward