Low-cost Sanitation
Integrated Low Cost Sanitation Scheme
New Delhi, Feb 22, 2012: Integrated Low Cost Sanitation (ILCS) Scheme started with the objective of eradicating all dry latrines and thereby liberating manual scavengers from inhuman practice of carrying night soil. The scheme also has provision for construction of new latrines for the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) households who have no latrine facility.
Sanctions have been made and funds have been released for conversion of all reported dry latrines to the States.
Rural area low cost sanitation in Assam
Low cost rural sanitation programme in Golaghat district in Assam plays an important role in health of the human population and the environment point of view. Approximately 40% of the world’s population does not have access to improved sanitation and as a result millions of people in the developing country die in infectious water borne disease like cholera, hepatitis, typhoid and diarrhea every year. The pathogens are particularly deadly in developing countries: diarrhea alone kills about 1.3 million children under the age of five each year due to poor sanitary conditions and practices.
Bike-powered poop pump is redefining low-cost sanitation
A bike-powered poop pump is redefining low-cost sanitation, April 2011, by Robert Goodier, Engineering for Change.
Grand Challenge: Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies
“Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies” is one of the new topics in Round 6 of the Grand Challenges Explorations grants, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundati
Low-cost technology for treating sullage in special soils, from Byrraju Foundation, Hyderabad (Advice)
Fri, 2010-07-16 10:46 — ramamaniOriginal Query: Vijaya Saradhi Atluri, Byrraju Foundation, Hyderabad
Posted: 20 April 2006
Byrraju Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing about a tangible improvement in the quality of lives of the rural underprivileged. We are currently working in 150 villages across five districts of Andhra Pradesh, India and impact nearly 1 million rural lives. Our programmes include a water treatment plant, constructed by contribution from NRI and 50% by contribution from foundation. Plastic cans are used to deliver water and sold at 1.50 to 2 RS. Per liter and enough is recovered to pay for O and M cost of the plant.
Low cost and ecologically sound sanitation practices/ from IWMI Anand/ Comparative Experiences
Thu, 2010-07-15 15:02 — ramamaniOriginal Query: Dinesh Kumar, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Anand, Gujarat
Posted: 9 September 2005
I am Dinesh Kumar working at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Anand, Gujarat.
Model of cleanliness in Kharoudi village in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab
Kharoudi village in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab is a "model" that understood the necessity of clean drinking water, sanitation, solid and liquid waste management and hygiene as a method to foster public health of the village community.
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Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies
"Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies", written by Elizabeth Tiley in 2008 published by The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) Switzerland and The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Switzerland, is an attempt to put together in one volume, all the abundant information that exists about sanitation solutions scattered throughout hundreds of books and journals. By ordering and structuring a huge range of information on tried and tested technologies into one concise document, the reader is provided with a useful planning tool for making more informed decisions.
Collector’s item
This feature has been written by R K Srinivasan in Down To Earth, a Science and Environment Fortnightly, published in 2008 by the Society for Environmental Communications, New Delhi and Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi. The case study is about how Shyam Mohan Tyagi, a young farmer, based in Ghaziabad District, Uttar Pradesh, used manure of a community toilet and lowered his cost of cultivation.
