24 October - Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies: one book, many solutions

 

Abundant information exists about sanitation solutions and technologies but it is scattered throughout hundreds of books and journals. This compendium aims to pull it all together in one volume. By ordering and structuring a huge range of information into one concise book, the reader is provided with a useful planning and reference tool.

By presenting an extensive array of available options, this compendium helps promote people-centred solutions to real sanitation problems by providing information to those who are looking for alternatives to the most common offerings.

There are two main sections in the compendium:

• description of different system configurations at the macro scale
• different technology information sheets describing the main advantages, disadvantages, applications and the appropriateness of the technologies required to build a comprehensive sanitation system.

This compendium is primarily addressed to planners, engineers, development experts dealing with sanitation, NGOs and donors.

This is a common publication by WSSCC and EAWAG and can be downloaded here. Read the press release here.

A hard-copy can be ordered by writing to info[at]sandec.ch