Ecosan

Article Courtesy: The Morung Express
Author: S Vishwanath

The technology choice that China made for sanitation and wastewater management has led to not only blistering economic growth but also rapid urbanisation as it helped Beijing reduce GDP loss that poor sanitation brings

The four storied apartments in Dongsheng District of Erdos Municipality in Inner Mongolia, China look like any apartment, all 825 of them. They look the same that is until you use the toilet. Detailed instructions nailed to the door tell you how to use them. The urine diverting toilets flush with sawdust instead of water. Urine is collected in tanks tucked away in the basement of the building and used as a fertiliser in a surrounding agricultural field. The solids are composted and reused also as fertiliser. Grey-water coming from the washing machine and bath is treated at a small treatment plant in the development and reused for landscape use. The people who bought the flats did so knowing fully well the systems of sanitation in place and paid the same market rates as the flats which had conventional sanitation systems. This is China’s brave new world of waste and wastewater management.

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A brochure from Utthan about Eco-sanitation produced with support from Arghyam.Read More

Prakash Kumar, prakumar@unicef.org,  Ecological Sanitation Consultant with UNICEF/Stockholm Institute provides an update on some recent work on Ecological sanitation in India:

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1. We are in the process of supporting I I T Delhi for nutrient recovery project for developing complete process for converting liquid urine in to the crystalline form.
2. We are in the final stage of supporting SCOPE for demonstration of ecosan toilet in a govt. middle school at Musiri, Trichy.
3. Comprehensive evaluation of Tamilnadu ecosan project will be taken up shortly.
4. Last batch of training of CCDU officials have been completed . This year total 5 batches got training on ecosan.
   

Forwarded to the Portal by Leonard Markidan,

Skadaddle Media

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Aggressive Social Media Initiative Challenges Twitter Users and Others to Step Up and

“Talk Sh-t” to Generate Much-Needed Funds, Attention for Important Global Health Issue

Skadaddle Media, Inc., a creative marketing studio which specializes in the development and execution of ideas that solve specific communications challenges, today announced the launch of its latest social media initiative, Twitter for Sh-tters (http://www.twitterforsh-tters.com), on behalf of its non-profit client Wherever the Need (WTN). A grassroots Twitter® campaign, Twitter for Sh-tters seeks to raise critical funds to build eco-sanitation toilets in the poorest regions of the world, and bring the important topic of sanitation to the forefront of discussions concerning pressing global health and poverty issues.

Founded in 1997, WTN aims to alleviate poverty and ill health through the implementation of environmentally-sound sanitation and water solutions that empower individuals and communities without undermining traditions and cultures. The organization targets regions within developing nations, such as India, Kenya, Uganda and Sierra Leone, to provide sanitation solutions by building specialized eco-sanitation (“eco-san”) toilets, and to facilitate the conversion of human waste for local agriculture usage.Read More