Watch BBC presenter Dallas Campbell help unclog a sewer in Mexico City in the BBC programme Supersized Earth. It ain’t pleasant.
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: Presentation: Inactivation of helminth in a solar concentrator and pit latrine + feasibility review of solar sanitation - by: Ewoods May 21, 2013Dear JKM This is very interesting idea for getting a more consistent heating in the concentrator. I would be interested in talking you about further tests you have done and temperature outputs, and the possibility of testing here in Kenya along side our other concentrators. We currently have a few projects going in Kenya and are now comparing various methods […]
- Re: Reed, Cana or Papyrus? - by: christoph May 21, 2013Hi Hemendra, have a look at this publication www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib-2011/giz2011-0...water-wastewater.pdf there you will find usefull information. I don´t know what you mean with cana (the red plant on your picture?)and also I don´t know what you mean with reed. To many species and the terms are used often quite general. Christoph
- Re: Diversion for Safe Sanitation - Grant on Advanced Toilet with On-Site Water Recovery (Eawag and EOOS, Switzerland and Austria) - by: larsen May 21, 2013Dear Gökce, thank you very much for your nice remarks on our project. I am afraid that we have not had time to update our homepage on the urine treatment methods, which we are working on in the RTTC project. However, they are derived from the main Vuna process: Stabilization of urine followed by evaporation of water (www.eawag.ch/vuna). We stabilize with par […]
- Re: Effective Sewage Sanitation with Low CO2 Footprint (Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA) - by: Marijn Zandee May 21, 2013Dear Aaron, Thank you for the posts and the updates. I also have a few questions. 1.) a family size of 10 seems large to me (based on my Asian experience, maybe for SSA this is more realistic). This brings me to the question of how well the process would cope with under-feeding. For instance if some of the children of the household get send to boarding schoo […]
- Reed, Cana or Papyrus? - by: bohrahs May 21, 2013I am in Kathmandu, Nepal. I built an ABR and horizontal flow CW to treat my house wastewater. I planted Cana and Reed. Cana is vigorous and is preventing Reed from spreading. -- how often should I harvest Cana? -- would it be better to replace all Cana with Reed? Which plant is better for root zone aeration? I use all well water and it is probably short on d […]
- Re: re.source: Mobile Sanitation Services for Dense Urban Slums (Stanford University, USA) - by: kcrussel May 20, 2013Hi Gökce, I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. As we discuss on our website, resourcesanitation.com, the business is based on two revenue streams- a monthly subscription from the user, and sale of recovered products at the treatment facility. The first step is to partner with an entrepreneur or local firm that has experience in sanitation and ma […]
- Having problems with premature session Time Outs? - by: susanaforum May 20, 2013A possible source of the problem could be your internet browser settings. For Firefox users when you log-in to the forum you will be asked with a pop-up "Would you like to remember the password for "username" on susana.org" if you click "Remember password" your browser will keep you logged in for the entire session (5 hours of i […]
- I received a “session time out” message – what does that mean and why is there a time limit ? - by: susanaforum May 20, 2013You can be logged in for a maximum of 5 hours. Once you click on the page (submitting a post or save something) the 5 hours countdown restarts again. After 5 hours, you will see the message “session time out” and you will have to login again. We have done this because we think it is safer this way so that other people cannot post under your name in case you […]
- Is someone moderating the discussion and what does this person do? - by: susanaforum May 20, 2013Currently the SuSanA secretariat is moderating the SuSanA Forum which means we may move a posting to the right category, delete double posts or any postings which violate the rules (see the rules section). The content of the postings will neither be judged nor changed. If you would like to volunteer to moderate a certain category of the discussion forum plea […]
- Would a Google search possibly bring up my posting? - by: susanaforum May 20, 2013All postings are searchable by search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing which means yes, your posting can be found on Google. It may however take several days until your posting has been “caught” by these search engines. The more people use this forum, the faster Google will catch the forum posts.
- Re: Presentation: Inactivation of helminth in a solar concentrator and pit latrine + feasibility review of solar sanitation - by: Ewoods May 21, 2013
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