This category includes topics on health effects of poor sanitation, on child health, child mortality, nutrition, hygiene promotion, sanitation for people with disabilities

(WASH stands for water, sanitation, hygiene)

MHM is part of sanitation (for example at schools) and can be discussed here.

Discussions around the CLTS approach, its strengths and weaknesses.

This section contains topics about people's behaviours and perceptions; how to influence these behaviours and to understand the psychology behind it all.

Discuss here anything to do with faecal sludge collected from pit latrines and septic tanks, for example challenges for sustainable faecal sludge management.

Questions and experiences about constructed wetlands can be placed here.

About sanitation systems where urine is diverted, for example questions on designs, implementation, costs for toilets, collection, treatment and reuse/disposal systems.

(DEWATS stands for Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems)

This includes for example Peepoo bags, mobile toilet pots, uni-sex urinals - including their collection, treatment and reuse systems.

With special conditions we mean e.g. emergency and humanitarian settings, areas with frequent flooding, small islands, urban slums,...

Includes composting toilets as well as composting in separate units, piles, boxes or similar.

Technologies and business models to optimise the financial value recoverable from excreta and faecal sludge, such as nutrients, energy products and water.

Chemical, biotechnology and biological approaches to processing excreta and sludge to render it harmless (pathogen removal and physico-chemical improvements).

Technologies and methods to improve user experiences including safety, aesthetics, smell reduction, cleanliness, reduced water-use requirements, related hygiene needs.

Technologies, business models, regulatory frameworks for extracting faecal sludge from pits and transporting it to transfer stations or processing and treatment facilities.

Marketing, quality control, policy support, PPP models, monitoring and enforcement issues associated with sustainable sanitation solutions. And other topics.

Ideas, questions, examples and suggestions about reuse of human excreta as well as soil conditioner produced from human excreta.

Project examples, new developments, innovations, research or individual experiences related to the safe reuse of sanitation products can be shared here.

All types of irrigation systems (for wastewater or greywater or other suitable liquids) can be discussed here.

Such as human right to sanitation, Rio+20, MDG monitoring, ...

If you have a topic that does not fit in any of the other categories then please put it here (we can later on move it to the right category or create a new category for it).

If you are not sure where to post something (in relationship to SuSanA), then post it here - the administrator can move it at a later stage.

In this section new initiatives, concepts, and ideas can be presented to the SuSanA community. With the idea of using the community as a "sounding board" for input, constructive criticism and further ideas. Collaboration and networking opportunities with others that are interested in similar initiatives can also be identified and explored.

Please discuss current issues in the respective working groups here.

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