The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) with assistance of a team led by Stockholm Environment Institute is inviting you to the 7th webinar with Gates Foundation sanitation grantees.
- Topic of the webinar is “Adding missing links in sanitation value chains”
- Date/Time: Tuesday 29 April 2014, 16:30 – 17:15 (CET – Central European Time; use this time converter to find your local time)
- Agenda: 16:00 Set-up of connections (you can start entering the virtual meeting room) – 16:30 recording starts – three presentations; each presentation is about 5 minutes long and is followed by around 10 minutes of questions – 17:15 end of webinar.
- The virtual meeting room can accommodate up to 100 participants. Attendance at this webinar is open to all.
- Once recorded, the webinar will be put online on the SuSanA Youtube channel in this Playlist together with previous webinars.
Three grantees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will present their research results:
1 – Is a power auger “Excrevator” a suitable tool to empty pit latrines in South Africa and septic tanks in India? By Francis de los Reyes (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA)
Previous discussion about this research on the forum
2 – A compact water recycling and energy harvesting system for off-grid public toilets in low-income urban areas: The NEWgeneratorTM anaerobic membrane bioreactor ready for field testing in India. By Daniel Yeh (University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA)
Previous discussion about this research on the forum.
3 – Community-scale facility to process faeces and faecal sludge into safe biochar by pyrolysis – field testing this year with Sanergy in Nairobi. By Brian von Herzen and Laura Talsma (Climate Foundation, California, USA)
Previous discussion about this research on the forum.
Instructions for attending the webinar:
There is no need to install any software to attend, simply go to this website. However, to obtain the passcode to enter the virtual room, please e-mail:
- Elisabeth von Muench: elisabeth.muench@ostella.de or
- Arno Rosemarin: arno.rosemarin@sei-international.org
During the webinar, people in the audience can use their webcam or the chat function of Adobe Connect to ask questions. The main aim with these webinars is to have interesting discussions: this is not a one-way street but an exchange in both directions.
This is the seventh webinar in a series since July 2013 with the aim to give increased exposure to the BMGF research grants, which are also discussed on the SuSanA Discussion Forum here since January 2013. These webinars are an excellent tool to exchange on research approaches and results, and to hear directly from the researchers what the achievements and difficulties are with these projects that have been funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Further information about this SEI-led project with the BMGF sanitation grantees is available here.
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