Environmental engineering

Wherever the Need puts sanitation first (video)

Wherever the Need has produced a simple, but effective sanitation promotion video narrated by Baroness Glenys Kinnock. Wherever the Need is a small UK-based charity with projects in India, Kenya and Sierra Leone.

Living without sanitary sewers in Latin America

Rojas, F. (2012). Living without sanitary sewers in Latin America – The business of collecting fecal sludge in four Latin American cities. World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), Latin America and the Caribbean.

Caltech’s prize-winning solar-powered toilet – video

A video demonstrates the working of the prototype of the solar-powered toilet that won the first prize of US$ 100,000 in the Reinventing the Toilet Challenge issued by the Bil

Treatment Wetlands – Sustainable Sanitation Practice, July 2012

Treatment Wetlands – Sustainable Sanitation Practice, July 2012 

Productive sanitation – the honey suckers of Bengaluru


Indigenously developed honey sucker in Bengaluru (Bangalore), south India. Photo: Vishwanath Sankrathai

5/5 - Desalination: Water Security

Part 5 of 5 videos 'Make it Clear' about the Adelaide Desalination Plant. Tricia Larking (Operations Interface and Comms Engineer) SA Water talks about how the Adelaide Desalination Plant fits in with South Australia's water security.

1/5 - Desalination: How it works

Part 1 of 5 videos 'Make it Clear' about the Adelaide Desalination Plant. Matthew Blaikie (Water Treatment Engineer) SA Water talks about how the Adelaide Desalination Plant works.

More info: http://www.sawater.com.au/desalination/

More Toilets in Zimbabwe, Better Livelihoods

Government and sanitation experts say Zimbabwe needs to increase efforts to
promote good hygiene and invest in toilets and clean water provision, as the
country grapples with a typhoid outbreak.

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