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
- Dr Peter Morgan June 3, 2013Peter Morgan – one of my Champions − has been awarded this year’s Stockholm Water Prize. Really well deserved! Congratulations Peter!
- 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 […]
- Dr Peter Morgan June 3, 2013
- SuSanA Forum
- Re: Are constructed treatment wetlands sustainable sanitation solutions? - by: gustavo June 19, 2013we are using a combination of up flow anaerobic reactor + constructed wetlands in periurban areas of Cochabamba - Bolivia successfully since 2009 see aguatuya.org/?page_id=30 and related publications. The reactors do 2/3 of the job (BOD remotion) and the CW 1/3... I believe CWs are reliable and very tolerant to fluctuations in organic load.
- Re: RTTC cost calculation: including capital costs? - by: gustavo June 18, 2013Yes this is a very interesting topic! we have some interesting data about small scale (
- Reply: Introduction of Thammarat, a BMGF grantee at AIT, Thailand - by: Jetgen June 18, 2013Hello Sammarat, It is nice to meet you, and I heard about your organization recently from Roshan at BMGF. I am wondering if you have any contacts from your sector in S. Korea. I am networking with my S. Korean contacts to identify leaders in this field, and thought I would also ask you. Thank you for your consideration, and I wish you well in your important […]
- Re: Reply: Using BSFL for pit latrine waste management - by: sphpan June 18, 2013Thanks for the information Chris. I will try to get in touch with Cobus directly. Regards, Sophia
- Piloting mobile sanitation with full service provision - by: christian.rieck June 18, 2013Dear Mona and team of Sanivation, Thank you for the effort you made to promote the pilot concept of mobile toilets with a aspirational sanitation service. I really hope it can be tested and piloted by interested organisations. It is an open source concept and design as this is the policy of GIZ. Since there is now a great expertise by you Mona and Andrew, Em […]
- Re: Potential ideas/tasks/next steps for the WG 12 "WASH & Nutrition" - by: BMERCEDES June 18, 2013Dear all, We have started to work on a draft of the WG12 fact sheet. I am sharing it here with you for your comments and adding, Any of your contributions will be highly appreciated, "Natysecond" do you already have a draft to share with us? And regarding the Library, we've uploaded a few more documents, we are still waiting for some copyright […]
- Re: Modelling the next generation of sanitation systems (University College London, UK) - by: madeleine June 18, 2013Dear Luiza Bom Dia & Greetings from Sweden! I wonder if it would be possible to combine your modelling with some tools that SEI has developed and used as desicion making tools for a long period of time I hardly know anything about modelling but I know that our tools are used all over the world . WE have one for energy LEAP sei-us.org/software/leap and on […]
- Sustainable Decentralized Wastewater Management in Developing Countries (AIT, Thailand) - by: Thammarat June 18, 2013Dear All, I would like to present to you a brief info of our project which has been granted from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Title of grant: Sustainable decentralized wastewater management in developing countries (Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand) Subtitle: Reinventing innovative decentralized systems and technologies for full or partial […]
- Introduction of Thammarat, a BMGF grantee at AIT, Thailand - by: Thammarat June 18, 2013Hi All, Let me introduce myself. I am Thammarat Koottatep from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand where I have been working for some 20 years. In late 2011, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation kindly granted a project namely "Sustainable Decentralized Wastewater Management in Developing Countries" to AIT but unfortunately the devasta […]
- New task for WG 2 - 1 pager on costing - by: tmsinnovation June 17, 2013Dear WG 2 How about a few folks putting their heads together and writing up a quick one pager on costing as suggested here by Jonathan: forum.susana.org/forum/categories/97-ena...g-capital-costs#4646 I think that this would be a manageable task and would be useful output. So please reply to this thread with your ideas for such a 1 pager, and then we can put […]
- Re: Are constructed treatment wetlands sustainable sanitation solutions? - by: gustavo June 19, 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