GTZ Ecosanitation Newsletter

Find out was is currently happening in the ecosan world.

26.03.2007 |Sascha Gabizon

The newsletter topics:

GTZ hosts kick-off-meeting for the promotion of sustainable sanitation / ecosan within the International Year of Sanitation 2008
News from EcoSanRes - “Sustainable Cities and Villages” conference in Dongshen/Erdos, China, from 27.-31. August 2007
News from the IWA specialist group on “ecological sanitation”
New EAWAG-headquarters with ecosan-concept inaugurated - 6 sites now selected for field-testing the Household-Centered Environmental Sanitation Approach (HCES)
Material flow analysis for environmental sanitation planning News - general - United Nations declare 2008 the International Year of Sanitation

Jobs

Afghanistan: Advisor for water sector coordination - Kabul – GTZ
Egypt: Advisor "Strategic counselling of the Ministry for Water Resources and Irrigation" - Cairo – GTZ
Germany: Planner for the competence field: Water - Eschborn – GTZ
Uganda: 2 jobs from CIM in the water development agency - Kampala
Water and Sanitation jobs with the German Development Service, DED
Germany: PhD positions in water utilities management – Univ. Leipzig

News from the pilot projects

German Cooperation
Germany: Borda Business unusual workshop 29th -30th November 2006
The Philippines: Action research on the use of diluted urine
Bulgaria: First dry urine diverting toilets and constructed soil filter
Romania / Ukraine: Urine diversion toilets for schools, public and households
Kyrgyzstan: ecosan project started in Kyrgyzstan

News from the pilot projects

The Netherlands: Working Group “Development of new sanitation systems” (ONSS) promotes ecosan in The Netherlands
Armenia: ecosan for a school in Hayanist
China: Happy Eco-School in Shanxi inaugurated
India: SCOPE constructs 100th UDD-toilet in Tsunami hit village
Sri Lanka: Urine diversion toilets get more and more support
Malawi: 1,900 UDDTs built this year by community-led water and sanitation initiatives
Ethiopia: Arbor loos for 10,000 households

Technology update - Video-conferences to reduce CO2 emissions
Readers Request - Information on dry urine diversion in cold climates needed
Publications - Tampere DT conference 2006 report - Article on school health programmes and ecosan in the Philippines

Publications
...on the web - Greywater Management in Low and Middle-Income Countries - Greywater recycling
Translation of EcoSanRes Guidelines
Helminths and Immunity against Tuberculosis
Large scale urine recycling Stockholm
Case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin-America

Trainings and courses
October 2007 Joint European Master in Environmental Studies (JEMES)
11/04-06/06/07 Web Based Training on Efficient Management of Wastewater
09-27/06/07 Short course Decentralised Water Supply and Sanitation, Delft, Netherlands