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: New "Technology review of UDDTs" by GIZ now published - by: jacquesru1 May 20, 2013Hi,my name is Jacques Rust, representing the company Envirosan Sanitation Solutions. We are based in South Africa and have been involved with the manufacturing and supply of UDDT toilets for a number of years. Elisabeth von Muench has requested that I post some answers to the Municipalities that have and still is using UDDT sanitation systems in South Africa […]
- Re: Water diverting toilet solutions - by: jansengerwin May 20, 2013We're on it! Thanks for your thoughts. There's still much to learn from UDT's, so we'll continue looking at that. Will try to keep you updated here on the forum. All the best!
- Re: Up-scaling Basic Sanitation for the Urban Poor in Kenya (UBSUP) (WSTF and GIZ, Kenya) - by: simon May 20, 2013Dear Elisabeth, Thanks a lot for your questions and my apologies for the delayed response. To answer them: When we say EcoSan facilities, we mean the double vault UDDT. The vaults are to be used alternately one in every 6 months for a standard user population of 10 people per double vault facility. In addition to the UDDTs, we also have other technologies to […]
- Re: Black soldier fly larvae as a product from productive sanitation - by: BioCycle May 20, 2013Hi All We are in the process of setting up a community scale BSF waste processing system at Klipheuwel, South Africa. We will collect about 500kg of faecal waste per day and hope to collect another 500kg of kitchen waste to make a 50/50 blended feed mix to feed to the larvae. We are doing the whole shebang where we collect the waste, process it with BSF larv […]
- Re: Looking for the proceedings of the IWA Conference Sanitation Challenge: New Sanitation Concepts and Models of Governance - by: AquaVerde May 20, 2013Dear Cecília and Elisabeth, I cam across as well this situation of not having equal access to many key information on water & sanitation issues in general. Over the years it got only a bit better thanks to SUSANA and others. But still sometimes only very personal and informal contacts to "key-holder" allow an access to existing key-documents. I […]
- Re: Diversion for Safe Sanitation - Grant on Advanced Toilet with On-Site Water Recovery (Eawag and EOOS, Switzerland and Austria) - by: gitum May 20, 2013Dear Bernhard and Tove, it is very interesting and impressive to see the technologies like ultrafiltration and electrolysis applied in such a feasible and a practical way. Before reading the comments and watching the videos, the first question came to my mind was how you were dealing with the fouling problem of ultrafiltration membrane. I assume it is a dead […]
- Using Senecio lyratipartitus extract after anal ablution (University of Eastern Africa, Kenya) - by: asafumaradufu May 19, 2013Senecio lyratipartitus extracts are effective against diarrhea causing organisms. Control of diarrhea pathogens using a natural hand disinfectant will lower cases of diarrhea which is responsible for about 2 million deaths annually among children world wide. Here is the information about the project that I led from May 2011 until Oct. 2012 under a grant by t […]
- Re: Effective Sewage Sanitation with Low CO2 Footprint (Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA) - by: F H Mughal May 19, 2013Dear Mr. Joan, Quite often, the anaerobic digesters are fixed with mixing device to hasten and enhance gas production; mixing the contents; and prevent the formation of scum. Regards, F H Mughal
- Re: Black soldier fly for sanitation - by: JeffHoliman May 18, 2013Greetings Elizabeth, Thank you for posting this link to a very comprehensive document. I recently participated in Sustainable Phosphorus (P) Research Coordination Network (RCN) Kickoff, supported by National Science Foundation and administered through Arizona State University. It was there that some working groups emerged, one of which is sustainable P in co […]
- Re: Looking for the proceedings of the IWA Conference Sanitation Challenge: New Sanitation Concepts and Models of Governance - by: muench May 18, 2013Dear Cecilia, I was at that conference, and I came back with a hardcopy of the proceedings which are now in the library at GIZ in Eschborn. This doesn't help you much... Here is a scan of the first two pages so that you know at least what it looks like. www2.gtz.de/Dokumente/oe44/ecosan/en-TOC...-conference-2008.pdf (if you need a specific paper, perhap […]
- Re: New "Technology review of UDDTs" by GIZ now published - by: jacquesru1 May 20, 2013
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Yeah great, let’s have a database where we collect some random data. Oh, and let’s also do this in East Africa where we only have 1000+ NGOs.
Srsly, as if a mobile app would change anything. Also, I am sick of seeing these things being field tested in East Africa all the time.
I’d love to have a reporting app (which would already be achieved via Frontline SMS or Ushahidi), but I’d also love to see much more action on the data use side. Reliable data that provides for tangible decisions.
Plus: who will guarantee that there is more to happen once the hackathon hype is gone? And who will pay devs in Europe to get to know about the equally poor face of public toilets in the EU?