Water | Sanitation | Hygiene

Hey Tsorens. Here's another one for your undergrad researcher to trial. It's a quantitative product similar to pathogel, it's called coliscan easygel made by Micrologylabs and is U.S.E.P.A. approved and needs no incubator. Here's the link . easygel1.jpg easygel2.jpg Easygel is a pectin-gel method wh...

Zimba. All descaling agents that are used to prevent the buildup or remove limescale and fouling usually contain acids such as acetic acid, citric acid, phosphoric acid, hydrochloric acid, or sulfamic acid. The safest for water supply is citirc acid which is a common food ingredient and can be purch...

Interesting discussion, sorry internet access here is particularly difficult. The more I look at CLTS the more I'm coming to the conclusion that the approach is great but it is not for early recovery programming. Our whole program has been undermined by other organizations going around giving out ca...

I would be interested to hear about people's experience using the quantitray product for MPN enumeration with colilert. The approach looks like it has real advantages over membrane filtration (which frankly is a pain to get the guys to do properly). The only disadvantage I can see is that you seem t...

I'm trying to decide what are the best options in terms of emergency portable water treatment units for our organization. There are a bewildering amount of units available on the market LMS, Berkefield, NOREPS EMWAT, Steller- Meta, Sky Juice, Noah etc. Can anyone point me in the direction of somethi...

We are just piloting Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) in Myanmar and are finding that communities are not particularly interested. The problem is that we are contracted by our donor to carry out the program. Is anyone else having trouble making this work?

Bob