From 2009-03-02 to 2009-07-01

Venue: (online course)

Summary:
This course deals with options for sustainable sanitation in low-income countries, which will contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for sanitation and related fields such as reducing poverty and hunger, reducing child mortality, improving lives of slum dwellers and ensuring environmental sustainability. The concept of ecological sanitation (ecosan) is presented. Ecosan is not a specific technology but a new approach to sanitation which regards sanitised human excreta and greywater as a resource, e.g. for application as a fertiliser and soil conditioner in (urban) agriculture. Ecosan strives to maximise the sustainability of sanitation systems, taking into account all aspects of sustainability.

Organizers: UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Contact Name: M. Ronteltap
E-mail: m.ronteltap@unesco-ihe.org
URL: http://www.unesco-ihe.org/Education/Short-courses/Online-courses/Ecological-Sanitation