Water and Sanitation Economics

Seminar at the Stockholm World Water Week, convened by IRC WASHCost/WHO/EAWAG and University of Geneva, Monday - August 17, 15:30 - 18:45, Room K16/17.

This seminar will present initiatives to address the economics of sanitation and water and discuss current thinking on the costing of sanitation services. WHO/University of Geneva will present cost-benefit analyses of improved sanitation options for low-income communities. WASHCost focuses on cost identification and disaggregation over the entire WASH service delivery cycle, will present two cases from Ghana and Andhra Pradesh, India. EAWAG will present a costing tool for sanitation technologies, ranging from simple pits to constructed wetlands. WSP will present the findings of a financial and economic analysis of ecological sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa, which compares the cost of EcoSan with conventional sanitation systems as part of WSP’s broader Economics of Sanitation Initiative. The second part of the seminar will involve a panel discussion on how to move forward.

See for more the SWWW site