SSWM – Linking up sustainable sanitation & water management 1 Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Katharina Conradin & Michael Kropac, seecon international gmbh

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Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: billion people without improved sanitation. TODAY. Source: M. Kropac Source: WHO-UNICEF 2012

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: million people without access to clean water. TODAY. Source: J. Heeb Source: WHO-UNICEF 2012

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Lack of water. TODAY. Source: REUTERS

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Poor yields. TODAY. Source:

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Source: Water wasted. TODAY.

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: What is the situation in South Asia?

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: And what about tomorrow?

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: WOULD YOU CALL IT COMON SENSE? To mix each day 2 million tons of highly polluted water with the 1000-fold amount of clean water, every day? Source:

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: WOULD YOU CALL IT COMON SENSE? To spend billions of dollars to clean this water up again? Source:

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: WOULD YOU CALL IT COMON SENSE? To discharge this water, when it would be dearly needed in agriculture? Source:

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: NO, IT IS NOT COMMON SENSE!

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: *Based on an average for a toilet that uses about 8 L of Water per flush (11). With conventional waterborne flush-toilets, we mix roughly 50 kg of faecal matter (per person/year) roughly 500 l of urine (per person/year) with roughly 20’000l of clean flushwater* 50 kg 500 L 20’000 L If this wastewater is discharged untreated into rivers, an even higher amount of water is polluted! Unsustainable current approaches: Mixing what shouldn’t be mixed.. What is going wrong?

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Unsustainable current approaches: Mixing different types of wastewaters… What is going wrong? What happens at the end of the pipe?

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: 16 Wastewater treatment plant Sewer lines P. Jenssen Initial investment costs for centralised sewage collection system make up for the largest part, i.e. 70 to 90% of the total cost of sewage treatment.  Collection system %  Treatment % (Otis 1996, Mork et al.2000) Consider lifespan of pipe network! What is going wrong? Unsustainable current approaches: Centralisation costs a fortune…

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Unsustainable current approaches: Example High-Tech Wastewater Treatment Plants What is going wrong? Which will need: Long sewer network & pumps to get the wastewater to the plant Electricity for aeration, pumps and other moving parts Skilled (and thus expensive) operation & maintenance staff High cost Recycling difficult due to contamination of heavy metals, etc..  Who will pay for this?

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: 18 LET’S DO IT BETTER!

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Let’s try to link water, sanitation and agriculture and look at it as one issue! Water Sanitation Agricultur e

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Let’s recycle nutrients and water! Source: MORGAN 2007 Source: SHEWA & GELETA 2009

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Policy making on high levels is important, but…. Source:

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: start with work in the meanwhile where WE have the power to do something… Source: M. KROPAC 2008 …on a local level!

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: involve the people in the decision making process… Source: M. KROPAC 2004

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: implementation, operation and maintenance! Source: M. KROPAC 2008

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: 25 Source: …let’s not only focus on hardware solutions, but also on software!

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Let’s focus on a holistic approach  Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management! Source:

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management (SSWM)… … is a holistic approach. … links sustainable sanitation with water management and agriculture. … considers the water and the nutrient cycle together.

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management (SSWM)… … starts simple, and locally. … is not a specific technology, but about all measures that aim at making sanitation and water management sustainable. … gives equal importance to hardware and software. Source: PHADKE 2009

Why Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management? Find this presentation and more on: 29 References 29 PHADKE, P. (2009): Poo. Pune: Aman Setu Publications. WHO-UNICEF (2012): Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water Update. Geneva: WHO Press. WHO-UNICEF (2010): Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water Update. Geneva: WHO Press. MORGAN P. (2007): Toilets that Make Compost. Low-cost Sanitary Toilets that produce valuable Compost in an African context. Stockholm: Stockholm Environment Institut (SEI), EcoSanRes Programm. Available at: [Accessed: ] SHEWA, W.A., GELETA, B.G. (2009): Greywater tower, Arba Minch, Ethiopia - Draft. (=SuSanA - Case Studies). Eschborn: Susatinable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) Available at: [Accessed: ]

SSWM – Linking up sustainable sanitation & water management 30 “Linking up Sustainable Sanitation, Water Management & Agriculture” SSWM is an initiative supported by: Created by: