Water | Sanitation | Hygiene

Nicola, One of the Global WASH Cluster Technical Training Modules was on hot water for bathing in emergencies with examples of emergency heaters and bathing units from the Pakistan Earthquake, the Bam Earthquake and Bangladesh Cyclone . I don't know if this is useful?

That's one sweet lookin' dunny. Although, how about this? Much simpler!

Thought I'd post this PDF Document for those of you that are interested.
The device is being promoted by CSIR Environmentek (http://www.csir.co.za).

Thought I'd post this PDF Document for those of you that are interested.
The device is being promoted by CSIR Environmentek (http://www.csir.co.za).

WECF have just produced a new school ecological sanitation booklet with lots of examples and designs.
You can download the document from here link. Here are a couple of pictures.

In Burundi the Ministry of Education standard is a desludgable latrine (a fully lined double brick pit wall with percolation hole and an unsealed base). Over the years we have desludged a fair number. Usually desludging requires a supply of water to liquefy the latrine contents both before the event...

In Burundi the Ministry of Education standard is a desludgable latrine (a fully lined double brick pit wall with percolation hole and an unsealed base). Over the years we have desludged a fair number. Usually desludging requires a supply of water to liquefy the latrine contents both before the event...

Thanks kehale!! I can now sleep a little easier at night. I think in the future though we may try and make sure that we budget extra money to replace the asbestos roofing panels or directly target schools with GI roofing panels or ceramic tiles (they make beautiful hand made ceramic roofing tiles he...

Thanks kehale!! I can now sleep a little easier at night. I think in the future though we may try and make sure that we budget extra money to replace the asbestos roofing panels or directly target schools with GI roofing panels or ceramic tiles (they make beautiful hand made ceramic roofing tiles he...

Thanks Pritesh!! This is a nice fact sheet! :D I've copied the relevant section here. Good to know that the risk is negligible.. "Drinking water has often has been transported in high pressure asbestos-cement pipes or collected into household tanks from asbestos-cement roofing material . The ri...