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.
These guidelines provide a thorough background on the safe use of urine and faeces for agricultural purposes. Aspects like the health risk associated we the use of human excreta in agriculture and how to limit them are discussed.
SCHOENNING, C. STENSTROEM, T. A. (2004): Guidelines for the Safe Use of Urine and Faeces in Ecological Sanitation Systems. (= EcoSanRes Publication Series, Report 2004-1 ). Stockholm: Stockholm Environment Institute
Short report edited by an agency of the United States Government, describing one of the first fully working AIWPS constructed over 30 years ago and treating both municipal and industrial wastewaters at a time.
EERE (1993): Alternative Wastewater Treatment: Advanced Integrated Pond Systems. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
Technical factsheet on aerobic fixed-film processes (trickling filters and rotating biological contactors). Applications, main design assumptions, performance and maintenance are discussed.
U.S.EPA (2002): Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems Manual Technology Fact Sheet 5. Fixed-Film Processes. In: U.S.EPA (1980): Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems Manual. 008.
This presentation offers a broader view on Improved Wastewater Fertigated Short Rotation Coppice (wfSRC).
KHAHIL, N., ARIAS, C. and HÄNEL, M. (2023): TTZ - Improved Wastewater Fertigated Short Rotation Coppice (wfSRC). Training Program on Sustainable Natural and Advance Technologies and Business Partnerships for Water & Wastewater Treatment, Monitoring and Safe Water Reuse in India . PDF
Since 2005, ESCAP, together with Waste Concern and local partners, tested and further refined the decentralized community based composting approach in Matale, Sri Lanka and in Quy Nhon, Viet Nam. This leaflet describes a project for further replicating this approach in the Asia Pacific Region.
UNESCAP (2009): Pro-Poor Solid Waste Management for Secondary Cities and Small Towns of Asia and the Pacific. Bangkok: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
This pdf contains questions as an exercise for the STEP University Module 4. The questions cover the topic: Drinking water supply.
JENSSEN, P.D. (2012): Questions Module 4: Drinking Water Supply. PDF
Waste is generally defined as any material that is no longer needed or no longer useful to the owner. Wastes can be solid, liquid or gaseous, however, our focus is on solid wastes. Japan and the European Union have embarked on a different approach to reduce the materials that require landfilling. They use various conversion technologies such as composting and thermal treatment. What about the rest of the world? Open dumps – controlled or uncontrolled continue to receive solid waste every day. They constitute the most serious threat to global environmental quality. China, south Asia, Africa and South America are regions where open dumps continue to prevail. In Nigeria today, the open dumps are neither even organised nor controlled. People can just dump anything anywhere.
ABUBAKAR, M.B. (2006): Municipal Solid Waste Management: Options for Developing Countries. Kaduna: EEMS Limited
This report contains the results of the workshop on developing a framework for the preparation of the CSPs conducted by GTZ with the CSP consultants for the cities. The objectives of the workshop were discussing the key issues in the status reports, identifying data gaps, discussing the issues in ensuring ownership at ULB/State level and developing a framework for the CSP outputs/recommendations.
GTZ (2010): Report of the Workshop on Developing a Framework for the preparation of the City Sanitation Plans. 29th September 2010 in New Delhi. Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Optimization of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and transportation through source separation becomes one of the major concerns in the MSW management system design, due to the fact that the existing MSW management systems suffer by the high collection and transportation cost. Generally, in a city different waste sources scatter throughout the city in heterogeneous way that increase waste collection and transportation cost in the waste management system. Therefore, a shortest waste collection and transportation strategy can effectively reduce waste collection and transportation cost. In this paper, we propose an optimal MSW collection and transportation scheme that focus on the problem of minimizing the length of each waste collection and transportation route. We first formulize the MSW collection and transportation problem into a mixed integer program. Moreover, we propose a heuristic solution for the waste collection and transportation problem that can provide an optimal way for waste collection and transportation. Extensive simulations and real testbed results show that the proposed solution can significantly improve the MSW performance. Results show that the proposed scheme is able to reduce more than 30% of the total waste collection path length.
DAS, S. and BHATTACHARYYA, B. (2015): Optimization of municipal solid waste collection and transportation routes. In: Waste Management: Volume 43 , 9-18.
