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Innovative sanitation approaches to address multiple development challenges

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Title Innovative sanitation approaches to address multiple development challenges
 
Creator Andersson, K.
Otoo, Miriam
Nolasco, M.
 
Subject resource recovery
sustainable development goals
waste management
sanitation
innovation
public health
water use
economic loss
 
Description Globally, more than 60% of the human population live without safely managed sanitation services or even lack access to basic sanitation facilities. In addition, most of the wastewater produced in the world is discharged without proper treatment. Integrated approaches are needed to address these issues and curb the resulting adverse impacts on public health and the environment, and associated societal economic losses. The UN 2030 SDG Agenda provides an important framework towards more sustainable sanitation development, in terms of both safe sanitation access and wastewater management. Innovative solutions that treat and enable productive safe use of water, and recovery of nutrients and organic matter from wastes resources are booming. Some examples of trends are decentralized solutions, separation of waste flows, low/or no-flushing toilets, and converting faecal sludge to energy. These alternative technologies show huge potential to address many development challenges, contributing to multiple SDGs, but achieving upscaling has proved to be a major challenge. A paradigm shift to ‘treatment for reuse’ instead of ‘treatment for disposal’ is already taking place in the wastewater sector. Nevertheless, a better understanding of driving forces and enabling environment, new organizational models based on more service-oriented sanitation provision, and highlighting potential multiple societal benefits to attract investments from new sectors, are identified areas that need further attention.
 
Date 2018-02-28
2018-03-09T05:51:29Z
2018-03-09T05:51:29Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Andersson, K.; Otoo, Miriam; Nolasco, M. 2017. Innovative sanitation approaches to address multiple development challenges. Water Science and Technology, 4p. (Online first). doi: 10.2166/wst.2017.600
0273-1223
1996-9732
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/91545
https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2017.600
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format p. 855-858
 
Publisher IWA Publishing
 
Source Water Science and Technology