Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Small Flows Clearinghouse (NSFC) provides information about innovative, low-cost wastewater treatments for small communities, those with populations less than 10,000
An Internet-based resource, administered by the World Health Organziation (WHO), giving "access to accurate, reliable and up-to-date information on technologies, institutions and financing of sanitation systems around the world". Topics include: Cost/benefit and impact analysis; Ecological Sanitation; Finance; Fluxes to Oceans; Gender; Health Aspects; Human development and poverty; Hygiene behaviour; Institutional development; Legislative issues; Low cost sewerage; Marine pollution; Monitoring and evaluation On-plot sanitation technology; Participatory approaches; Pollution Control; Promotion of sanitation; Sanitation and fresh water ecology; Sanitation for the urban poor; Sanitation within integrated water management; School sanitation; Solid waste management; Stormwater management; Wastewater reuse; Wastewater treatment technology. The site is still under development.
The Sanres Program, which started in 1993 and is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), supports ecological sanitation projects in aims to recycle nutrients from human waste especially through "dry" systems such as composting toilets, for use as fertilizer.
A 3-year supraregional sector project on "Ecologically and economically sustainable wastewater disposal and sanitation systems", starting in 2001, funded by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
This site provides information on low-cost improved latrine slabs or SanPlats (Sanitation Platform) which were first developed in 1979-89 in Mozambique and Malawi. SanPlat moulds are sold by the Swedish company LCS ProMotion, which maintains the site. The site includes guidelines on managing latrine building projects, instructions for constructing SanPlats, and brief information on public and institutional latrines, and urinals. URL: http://www.sanplat.com/
A web site of innovative urban runoff control technologies, covering: stormwater, combined flow, source control. site control, and end-of-pipe treatment technologies + information on experiences in the Great Lakes area (Canada / USA). Maintained by Department of Civil Engineering, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Canada.
The CWG page is managed by the MSWM unit of SKAT, the MELISSA programme and the Urban Waste Thematic Group of the World Bank. It provides a CWG strategy document, a list of over CWG 50 partners, meeting reports and information on recent MSWM documents.
CAPART - Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology (India)
A national agency under the under the aegis of the Ministry of Rural Areas and Employment promoting rural development in India, assisting over 6,300 voluntary organizations. CAPART has divisions on: Drinking Water, Rural Sanitation and Watershed Development
SANITEC -Centro de Tecnología Apropiada en Sanemiento (Cuba)
Founded in 1996 in Guantánamo, Cuba, by the Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos and UNICEF, under the auspices of the Consejo de la Administración Provincial de Guantánamo, to develop appropriate technologies for water supply, basic sanitation and environmental protection. Technologies include: simplified sewerage, slow sand filtrartion, domestic filters and latrines.
Works in India with 35,000 volunteers who promote human rights, environmental sanitation, health and hygiene, non-conventional sources of energy, waste management and social reforms through education, training, research and awareness campaigns. Sulabh is well known for its work in liberating scavengers and its promotion of public latrines. In between photos of founder Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak the site gives brief information of Sulabh's activities, including the novel Sulabh International Museum of Toilets.
A research-based NGO established in 1995. The main fields of activity are: solid waste management and resource recovery; clinical and hazardous waste management; waste water treatment; community based environmental improvement; urban environmental management; municipal services planning ; environmental impact assessment; and organic farming. The site includes information on projects, publications and studies, and the newsletter Aborjona O Paribesh
WASTE - advisers on urban environment and development (Netherlands)
The Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA) was endorsed in 1995 by 108 governments and the European Commission, with UNEP acting as coordinating agency. The Clearing-House site includes a news forum, project documents, case studies (under construction), best practices (under construction) and a Kid's Page. Information can be accessed by pollutant source category, regional sea, coastal zone management element, and economic sector. The GPA has identified sewage as a priority for action. A Strategic Action Plan on Sewage has been developed that will culminate in a Global Conference on Building Partnerships for Sewage Management in 2001.
Although it has won many prizes, an impact survey in 1997 showed that Indore slum upgrading project was not the "substantive and highly successful slum upgrading intervention" it was made out to be. See also Source Weekly, no. 24-25, 28 June 1999.
Carried out by the Sanitation Support Unit (SSU) of the Ministry of Environment and Housing the project focussed on the construction of adsorption pits. Text + 5 minute video clip from the TVE Hands On series.
List for discussion of all aspects of solid waste management recycling in developed and developing countries. Main areas of interest include: recycling, composting, re-use, recovery, the informal sector and organisation of waste management.
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A list for discussion and information exchange concerning the research, planning, design, operation and modelling of urban drainage systems. Topics range from urban hydrology, drainage and sewerage to treatment plants, receiving water impacts and sustainability.
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This mailing list is proposed to provide a forum for scientific discussion on the one hand by people who are distressed by the negative effects which their wastes can take on our natural environment (soil, water, air and the seas) and on the other hand by people involved in collecting, fractioning, conditioning, recycling or dumping wastes
Waste stabilisation ponds are a low-cost method of wastewater treatment, and this list is to promote WSP as part of the greening of rural wastewater treatment works, and to promote the safe reuse of WSP effluents for crop production.
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A list for discussion and information exchange relating to applied research in the water supply and sanitation sector. Intended for those with a research interest in the UK and developing nations, discussion focuses on priorities, funding and a range of multi-sectoral topics in the sector.
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