Aqua 2004 Report
A pilot project on safe drinking water, ecological sanitation and associated hygenic risks and reducing effects of polluted drinkingwater on children´s health in rural Romania.
15.09.2004
Abstract
Groundwater is often a source for drinking water. In areas, where no adequate waste management system exists, human excrements can pollute groundwater. In this paper a pilot-project on “safe drinking water” as an example how to improve sanitation facilities and groundwater quality is presented. As an alternative to latrines and conventional sewage systems ecological sanitation (ecosan) was introduced. In a rural Romanian school waterless, double vault urine diverting toilets and waterless urinals were as a groundwater-protection measure and for better sanitation condition installed. Due to the ecosan toilets, farmers were providing with an excellent fertilizer.It was shown that the installation of double vault urine diverting toilets is a low cost, very fast and easy to realize possibility to protecting groundwater and thus improve health conditions.
Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) and the Romanian NGO partner Medium & Sanitas, in cooperation with the Technical University Hamburg –Harburg, Department of Industrial and Municipal Wastewater management carried out the implementation of this multi-stakeholder pilot project.
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