WASH Library title: Faecal sludge management

EcoSan Club -Vienna, AT, 2012. Faecal sludge management. (Sustainable sanitation practice; issue 13, 10/2012). [online] Vienna, Austria: EcoSan Club.

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Contains:

• Absence of faecal sludge management shatters the gains of improved sanitation coverage in Bangladesh
• Analysis of faecal sludge management in the cities of Douala and Yaoundé in Cameroon
• Optimizing the faecal sludge management scheme in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Towards sustainable pit latrine management through LaDePa

Management of faecal sludge is often neglected but essential for the functioning of sanitation systems and the well-being
of urban dwellers. Issue 13 of Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP) on „Faecal sludge management“ presents studies
from different regions that mainly show the non-existence of faecal sludge management in most regions. Additionally,
the last paper describes of a new technological solution (the LaDePa machine) for producing hygienically safe organic
fertiliser from sludge form VIPs. The LaDePa machine was developed in eThekwini municipality (Durban), South Africa.
The paper also presents an Issue 13 of SSP includes 4 contributions:
1. the analysis of faecal sludge management in 3 cities in Bangladesh,
2. the analysis of faecal sludge management in 2 cities in Cameroon,
3. the description of the development of an optimized sludge management system in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and
4. the description the LaDePa machine. [authors abstract]

Subjects: faecal sludge management [FSM];