Smart Sanitation Solutions: Examples of Innovative, low-cost technologies for toilets, collection, transportation, treatment and use of sanitation products

This booklet on sanitation, like its counterpart Smart Water Solutions, gives examples of household and community-based sanitation solutions that have proven effective and affordable. It illustrates a range of innovative sanitation technologies that have already helped thousands of poor families to improve their lives. The technologies described are a source of inspiration.

Table of Contents:

Foreword

The need for sanitation

Factors influencing pathogen die-off

The challenges of sanitation coverage

What makes sanitation technologies smart

The elements of sanitation technologies

Figures on the characteristics of excreta

SANITATION TECHNIQUES
An all in one systems; the ArborLoo

TOILETS
Dry toilets
Dry urine diversion toilets
Pour flush slabs
Waterless urinals

COLLECTION
Fossa Alterna
Oil drums and containers
Vaults and chambers

TRANSPORTATION
Cartage system
MAPET and Vacutug system
Settled sewerage (small diameter)

TREATMENT
Co-composting
Dehydration
Planted soil filter
Anaerobic digestion

USING SANITATION PRODUCTS
Intermezzo ”The need to recover phosphorous from excreta”
Compost as soil conditioner
Human urine as fertiliser
Biogas as source of energy

Case Study 1: Urine diversion in the Philippines
Case Study 2: Fixed-dome biogas systems in Nepal
Some terminology used in this booklet
Call for information

 

Post Date : 23 Maret 2009