Waterless urinal
Posted on June 15, 2008 | Filed Under IWP, Ecosan, Urban Water, International Year of Sanitation
On a recent visit to the National Institute for Advanced Studies, Bangalore (http://www.nias.res.in/, site was down as of 15th June, Saturday night), we saw that the men’s bathroom had waterless urinals from Parryware. There was also a request to turn off the light when leaving the bathroom. Three cheers for NIAS for promoting sustainability in small but important ways.
Some points:
– It seems the urinals were malodorous and the people in the rooms above complained. Some air freshener type thing is being used now for this, and it is effective, we did not feel any odour in the bathroom. So more design work seems necessary. Binayak of Arghyam mentioned that the waterless urinals at UNESCO-IHE ( ) used a odour absorbing material to handle this problem.
– The urinal saves water but what would be even more cool was if the urine was used as fertilizer. One can envision large public facilities like airports and railway stations where all the urine is put to productive use !!
– The contact information at Parryware is http://www.eparryware.com and waterless@parry.murugappa.com
Can we hear more stories of waterless urinal installations and how they are working ?
-Vijay, Water Portal team
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Consultants for School WATSAN Program Evaluation
Posted on June 12, 2008 | Filed Under Job, Announcements, International Year of Sanitation
Forwarded to the Portal by: WES-Net India
GOAL, an international humanitarian organisation operating from its head office in Dublin Ireland, has its Indian Liaison Office is located in Kolkata from which all its operations in India are planned, developed and executed. Currently GOAL is looking for consultancy services for conducting external evaluation of one of the GOAL funded projects in India focussed on School WATSAN programme.
The main purpose of this mid term evaluation is to study of the overall impact of the programme, review the process of selection of schools as per the strategy and review O&M and handing over mechanisms and organisational processes adopted in order to improve the overall program delivery.
Read More here: Consultant Program
Contact: Anasuya Gupta at anasuya.gupta@goalindia.org
Last Date: 16th June 2008
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Arghyam — funding for projects in wastewater management
Posted on May 16, 2008 | Filed Under Arghyam, IWP, Announcements, Awards/RFPs/Competitions, Urban Water, International Year of Sanitation
Arghyam is a public philanthropic trust based in Bangalore focussing on the water sector. Arghyam was founded in 2001 with a private endowment from Ms. Rohini Nilekani. Arghyam financially supports and anchors the India Water Portal. More about Arghyam at www.arghyam.org
During the current financial year (2008-09) Arghyam is looking to support innovative projects/interventions in the field of wastewater treatment & management in a rural or peri-urban area. If you have an interesting proposal on these lines please send your brief Concept Note to us for consideration. More information on the project selection process is at:
http://arghyam.org/content/view/59/68/ . You can also contact us at manohar@arghyam.org
S. Mahohar Rao
Arghyam
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Clean India Photo Competition - March 20th - 27th 2008
Posted on March 21, 2008 | Filed Under Announcements, News, Awards/RFPs/Competitions, International Year of Sanitation
Clean India Photo - Contest 2008
[Date:04/03/08Source:WES-Net India]
To commemorate the “International Year of Sanitation – 2008’’, WES-Net India and some of its constituent member organizations, UNICEF, Water Aid and Plan India aim to promote mass awareness and also raise the profile of sanitation among the general public, professionals and policy makers through the mainstream media by involving photographers in the Clean-India contest.
To be eligible to take part in the contest, all a photographer is required to do is to publish photographs along with captions relating to below given sanitation themes in the newspapers and magazines during a period of one week, starting from the world water day which will be observed on 20th March this year, (i.e. 20th – 27th March 2008).
- Sanitary Facilities (Rural/urban) - Sewerage Systems
- Hygiene Behavior - River Pollution Issues
- Solid Waste Disposal - Wastewater Management
Published copies of the same along with the original print could be sent to the organizers by April 15 as nominations to the award. There is no entry fee for sending nominations to the contest.
The awards will be given away at a national level event to be held in New Delhi by leading dignitaries of Government and International Agencies in the month of June.. Selected entries would be displayed in a photo exhibition proposed to be organized along side the award function as well as in the photo book on sanitation to be published.
Criteria and themes for the Sanitation Photo Awards
The published photographs will be judged based on the following criteria;
Highlights an important/neglected issue
Creates mass awareness among public and others
Promotes best practices
More information at the website http://www.wesnetindia.org
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