Featured on www.theguardian.com Scientists in Bangladesh are working on ways to treat toilet waste in rural areas and use it to develop safe, nutritious compost for food crops. Led by the school of civil engineering at Leeds University, the Value at the End of the Sanitation Value-Chain (VESV) project aims…
VESV and its partners have been working to develop a business model for the cost effective and safe collection and processing of fecal sludge (FS) from pit latrines. The overall aim is to produce safe, high quality fertilizer that is useful for farmers. In order to benefit from the guidance…
Improper septage management can become a significant burden on the environment and the water resources, which in turn can have a negative impact on human health. Having improved access to sanitation facilities is one of the significant objectives of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). If excreta is not…
In early May, latrine pit emptying field work was completed in the Pakhirachala Village in Mymensingh District. This work consisted of interviews with local pit emptiers, observations of local pit emptying operations, and testing five safety interventions in the pit emptying process. The objective of the field work was to…
