Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, Early Proofs, January 2017
Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines
SuSanA Forum- Safely Managed Sanitation in the Global Sanitation Fund - by: Elisabeth January 18, 2021Thanks for sharing this interested report. I am copying below the methodology and the recommendations. I think a few of us will be surprised at recommendation Number 8 ("Keep excreta in the ground") but keep in mind that this report looked at rural areas, i.e. with ample space. +++++++ Methodology and process Rapid desk reviews were conducted on 11 […]
- Scrap the Period Tax: new website and webinar - by: Elisabeth January 18, 2021Hi Ina, If you want more awareness around the term "period tax" then I recommend that you turn to Wikipedia and improve the information available there. Until 5 minutes ago, there was not even an entry for "period tax" on Wikipedia! I have rectified that by placing a redirect from "period tax" to the existing article on "ta […]
- Survey on integrity of teachers and health workers - by: Elisabeth January 18, 2021Hi Lucie, Would you be able to share the list of survey questions here in the forum? I.e. I am curious to see them but currently can't see the list unless I participate in the survey (which I don't think I am qualified to do). Good luck with your research! Regards, Elisabeth
- Household Ecosan toilets in rural Ghana - an evaluation report - by: Linda2019 January 17, 2021Dear Hajo - thank you for your comments, which we truly appreciate. Yes, we have seen the previous discussions of this issue here on the Forum. Dr Tore Knos also spoke with us about the importance of reaching the correct temperatures to destroy the ascaris eggs, and shared his design for toilets with a window in the chamber to allow more heating from the su […]
- Household Ecosan toilets in rural Ghana - an evaluation report - by: hajo January 17, 2021Dear Linda, dear DBG team, I want to comment on your last discussion re pathogen safety of the dehydrated faeces from an ECOSAN/UDDT toilet. Beware, I am not a bio-chemist researcher and also can only report from what I have read. But maybe it helps a bit further in the discussion. That the lab in Accra found only 3-4 eggs per gram of dehydrated faeces does […]
- Safely Managed Sanitation in the Global Sanitation Fund - by: Elisabeth January 18, 2021
