Perspectives are different frameworks from which to explore the knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management. Perspectives are like filters: they compile and structure the information that relate to a given focus theme, region or context. This allows you to quickly navigate to the content of your particular interest while promoting the holistic understanding of sustainable sanitation and water management.
The UNEP homepage provides an international source book on environmentally sound technologies for wastewater and storm water management including a chapter on aquaculture.
Akvopedia entry on trickling filters.
The FAO homepage provides an online document on wastewater treatment and use in agriculture with an extra chapter on wastewater use in aquaculture. Various economical, ecological, technical and biological aspects are explained.
The official homepage of Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific provides up to date information on ecological, economic and technological aspects of aquaculture. Many open source documents (manuals, reports, case studies etc.) are available here.
On the website of the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department, guidelines for soakaway systems are published.
The mission of the Maine Lagoon Systems website is to promote clean water resources through lagoon systems. The general concept of biological treatment and nitrification in lagoons and ponds as well as data, design considerations and regulatory issues are discussed. Useful articles on different technical issues can be downloaded as PDF.
Factsheet based on a system approach and adapted from TILLEY et al. (2008).
Exhaustive description of the design and performance of stabilization ponds including advanced systems.
The site of water justice is a resource centre on alternatives to (water) privatisation.
This link to www.oursoil.org provides information on arborloo based on the work of Peter Morgan in Malawi.
This internet book gives an overview of the technical parameters to understand how solar water disinfection works.
ACRA, A. ; JURDI ; MU'ALLEM, H. ; KARAHAGOPIAN, Y. ; RAFFOUL, Z. (1990): Water disinfection: Assessment and Application. Ottawa . المُدخلات: International Journal of Environmental Health Research: Volume 18 , 335. URL [Accessed: 27.01.2010]The site aims to provide information and resources on CLTS around the world and to facilitate sharing and learning across countries and organisations.
Homepage of the SODIS reference centre Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries (SANDEC), Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG): The site contains a lot of further information and documents regarding the technological and "software" aspects of SODIS, furthermore an excellent collection of FAQs.
Website of the Centre for Low-Cost Water Supply and Sanitation (CREPA) with plenty of material (films, posters, brochures) on the use of urine in agriculture.
This link provides information on the Stockholm World Water Week Session ‘Big Sweet Tomatoes – Food Security and Productive Sanitation’ that focussed on a project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in Niger with a strong focus on urine reuse.
This publication describes how public-public partnerships in the water sector can be a valid method to improve efficiency, accountability and service quality. Most of the water utilities worldwide are public – i.e., also most of the skills and knowledge is public. Utilities can thus complement lacking competences of one another and thus improve service quality.
HALL, D. LOBINA, E. CORRAL, V. HOEDEMAN, O. TERHORST, P. PIGEON, M. KISHIMOTO, S. (2009): Public Public Partnerships (PUPs) in Water. Public Services International (PSI), Transnational Institute (TNI) and Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) URL [Accessed: 11.01.2010]
This case study describes the successful example of public water operation in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
HALL, D. LOBINA, E. VIERO, O.M. MALTZ, H. (2002): Water in Porto Alegre, Brazil – Accountable, Effective, Sustainable and Democratic. Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) and Municipal Department of Water and Sanitary Sewage (DMAE) URL [Accessed: 11.01.2010]