Non-governmental refuse collection systems

Non-governmental refuse collection system

SuSanA's road map towards more sustainable sanitation practices

The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) is a network of over 100 multiand bilateral organisations, NGOs, businesses, governmental and research institutions active in the field of sustainable sanitation. The network was formed in 2007, initially mainly to support sustainable sanitation approaches for the UN International Year of Sanitation in 2008. After having set up a number of working groups, produced a website, several fact sheets and other documents it has now become clear that the partners wish to continue with the SuSanA work beyond 2009 as well. This paper introduces the network and its structure, its definition of sustainable sanitation, the goals and objectives of SuSanA and presents a road map for the network including the status of the twelve thematic working groups

The early recognition of environmental impacts

In developing countries problems concerning water quality have agravated during the last decade. While in industrialized countries the traditional and modern types of water pollution (e.g. domestic, industrial, nutrients) occured in over a 100- year period, in developing countries however they have occured within one generation [WHO, 1989]. Short time technical measures have important immediate effects, but for achieving sustainability it is critical to develop tools for long term planning which allow a better understanding of how different strategies affect outcomes and how strategies are sensitive to different levels and types of financing [Bower, 1989]. In industrialized countries the method of Material Flux Analysis (MFA), has been shown to be a suitable instrument for early recognition of environmental problems and evaluation of environmental measures [Baccini and Brunner, 1991]. It has been shown that it is possible to combine data from market research on one hand with data from urban waste management on the other hand to observe the metabolic dynamics of a region [Baccini et al. 1993]. However, this method has not been applied yet in Developing Countries due to the low data availability and the poor data quality. The aim of this paper is to show how the method of MFA was applied to a region in a Developing Country with regard to water resource management

Community participation in solid waste management

Community participation in solid waste managemen

Domestic refuse collection in urban low income areas

Domestic refuse collection in urban low income area