Hi Everyone,

Good to be back on the Forum after many months! Wondering if there are SuSanA folks who will be attending the IWA Conference on Decentralised Wastewater Management in Asia (November 2012) -- I will be there, and if there are going to be many others, might be useful to do a small informal catch-up......


Cheers,

Sunder

Dear Sunder,

Thanks for bringing this conference in India to our attention!
Here is the website of the conference which you mentioned:
www.iwadewats-nagpur.com/

The program looks very interesting and I see some familiar SuSanA member names there, such as Chris Buckley, Jonathan Parkinson, Stefan Reuter, Christoph Luethi, for example.
So a little SuSanA informal gathering could for sure be nice and useful (it would just need someone to organise it by naming a venue and time; maybe even just a restaurant for dinner (pay yourself basis)). GIZ India is also involved (Dirk Walther).

As you had no replies to your query thus far, I suggest you also send an e-mail to the working group mailing list which is closest to the conference theme, probably WG 10 (operation and maintenance) and/or maybe WG 4 (systems) or WG 3 (because biogas is also part of the conference), and ask the same question there (point them also to this discussion thread).

It would also be great to have the presentations available afterwards on the SuSanA website (and videos?). I know from previous IWA conferences that they usually don't make the ppts and papers freely available which is a shame (example: Manila conference in 2011). Jonathan Parkinson: please correct me if I am wrong? What could be a way around this problem?

In any case, Sunder, please do tell us afterwards about your impressions and what the main trends were.

It looks like BORDA will be prominently in the program, it has been my hope that the BORDA people also use and discover this forum more (we recently had a discussion on the DEWATS system where Christoph Platzer wrote very detailed issues about DEWATS, but unfortunately no reply from BORDA yet).

Kind regards,
Elisabeth

Hi Elisabeth,

Thanks for your response, and apologies for not getting back right away -- I was out on a vacation beyond internet access, so saw this only now. I will send emails (later today) to the WGs as suggested by you, and will also see check with some of the others to see who might want to actually organise this.

I will certainly share my impressions post the event!

Regards,

Sunder

Dear All,

I am a MSc Urban Management student from TU Berlin, currently based in Kathmandu while I make an internship with the GFA Municipal Support Team (on behalf of GIZ). At the same time I am researching and writing my Master Thesis on community-based, decentralised wastewater management in Nepal's urban settlements (applying the CLUES approach for DEWATS in the hillside town of Tansen).

Last month, I was lucky enough to attend the IWA Nagpur Conference on Decentralised Wastewater Management. I found the conference to be extremely informative, thanks to all the expert presentations and fruitful participant discussions.

Upon returning to Kathmandu, Alex and I prepared a short ppt presentation to share the conference findings with our colleagues - I would also like to share just some of the slides here, to highlight the main points we took away from the conference.

Cheers,

Laura Bright-Davies

Dear lura

Thank you for sending information ,I am interested in decentralised wastewater management .

Could you please send if possibile more information and complete presenation in English to my This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ?

I thank in advance
Mohammad Mojtabaei

Dear all,

Good news for all those interested in urban sanitation:

Selected presentations from this conference (Decentralised Wastewater Management in Asia) are now available here in the SuSanA library:
www.susana.org/lang-en/library?view=ccbk...p;type=2&id=1660

If you are interested in urban sanitation, then I recommend that you take 10 minutes out of your busy schedules to have a quick browse through some of them. I found it very interesting.

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Here is the list of presentations which I was able to collect and have just uploaded (all the files are available at the link above):

In alphabetical order by first author (scrol down to access the pdf files):

Campbell, Alex - Cambodia
School Based Sanitation (SBS) in Cambodia - Multi-Stakeholder involvement in decision making processes for sustainable decentralized school WASH infrastructure

Crous, Pieter - South Africa
Designing decentralised wastewater treatment for communal facilities: Preliminary results of the water demand from eThekwini's Community Ablution Blocks

Eales, Kathy - South Africa
The limits of community management: Some flndings from Indonesia's experience of implementing community-managed DEWATS at scale

Ekasanti, Prawisti - Indonesia
Pre-fabrication of DEWATS in Indonesia with RFP

Etemadi, Hussein - Afghanistan
Process of developing urban wastewater policy for Afghanistan catering to decentralized wastewater management needs

Gupta, Ida Bagus Hendra - Indonesia
Utilisation of a web-based application for informed-decision making in sanitation sector: A case study in City of Cimahi

Kansakar, Luna- Nepal
Highlighting the significance of promotional measures and effective O&M
in sustaining DEWATS - Study from Nepal

Mikhael, Georges - United Kingdom
Improving financial analysis in sanitation planning: lessons from Dhaka

Patil, Dhawal - India
Water management to achieve sustainability in satellite townships In India

Pietrushka, Bjoern - South Africa
The development of a gas displacement method to determine the bioactivity of anaerobic sludge in DEWATS plants

Puspowardoyo, Prasetyastuti - India
Key role of AKSANI for sustainability of CBS performance in Indonesia

Reymond, Philippe - Switzerland
Nation-wide assessment of decentralised sanitation initiatives: Enabling environment and ways towards wide-scale replication scenarios Philippe

Reynaud, Nicolas - Germany
Monitoring results of 108 DEWATS in Indonesia

Schmidt, Andreas - Germany
Solid-free Sewer: an approach to provide appropriate sewer services in urban areas of emerging and developing countries

Sherpa, Mingma - Nepal
Ensuring sustainability of DEWATS - a community-based O&M strategy in Nala

Sinha, Susmita - India
Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) Society

Walther, Dirk - India
Development of a planning tool for comprehensive and innovative planning multi-dimensional problems in urban sanitation

Yetsho, Tashi- Bhutan
Developing evidence based behaviour change communication for improving faecal sludge management in Bhutan

Zifu Li, China
DEWATS system with upgrading components for high quality community wastewater treatment

Zifu Li, China
Prefabricated biogas reactor based system for community wastewater and organic waste treatment in developing regions of Asia

Enjoy!

Elisabeth