Department Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development

Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development

Our mandate is to develop and test methods and technologies that help the worlds’ poorest access sustainable water, solid waste and sanitation services.

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New Publications

Methods for Faecal Sludge Analysis

Governance Arrangements for the Scaling Up of Small-Scale Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Systems – Lessons From India

Compendium of Sanitation Technologies in Emergencies, English

Eawag-Sandec's Research & Capacity Development Projects and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SOWATT – Selecting Organic Waste Treatment Technologies

Faecal Sludge Management: Highlights and Exercises

Black Soldier Fly Biowaste Processing - A Step by Step Guide, Chinese

Black Soldier Fly Biowaste Processing - A Step by Step Guide, English

Pyrolysis of Biowaste in Low and Middle Income Settings. A Step-by-Step Manual

Compendium

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MOOC series «Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development»

Learn about sanitation, water, faecal sludge and solid waste management for free, wherever and whenever you want! More info: MOOC webpage.

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Making organic waste management sustainable

January 14, 2021

Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) treatment of organic waste offers a sustainable and economic solution to the need for organic waste management in Indonesia.

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Research Projects

Sandec provides regular backstopping services to the Swiss Humanitarian Aid (SHA) in terms of capacity building, advisory services and innovation.

WASH in Emergencies
SESP develops methods and tools supporting sanitation technology and system selection in strategic planning

Santiago
Develops and validates methods to foster “zero-waste” approaches at school level in Nepal and Peru.

Zero Waste at Schools (ZW@S)
The aim of PACT is, to identify behaviour change techniques on how to increase the psychological ownership over safe-drinking-water-collection infrastructure and to increase the long-term use by strengthening people’s habits.

PACT - Participatory Action for Long-Term Arsenic-Safe Water

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