Hi Andrew,

I just found this thread, and I'm excited to see you've already developed such a long list of sanitation technology and service providers. I think you might be familiar with the Sanitation Technology Platform (STeP) website already, but I wanted to flag a few of our resources and one from the Toilet Board Coalition that might be interesting for you if you continue to expand this document.

The Transformative Technology Directory contains regularly updated information, including system specifications, contact information, demonstration videos, etc. related to BMGF-funded sanitation technologies. Access here: techdirectory.stepsforsanitation.org/

STeP has also done a number of technology landscapes over the years covering other (non BMGF-funded) technologies as well, including in:

Sludge Thickening, Dewatering, and Drying Technologies --> stepsforsanitation.org/2018/01/sludge-th...drying-technologies/

Wastewater Treatment Technologies: The Landscape in India --> stepsforsanitation.org/2015/12/wastewate...-landscape-in-india/

Bio-based Sanitation Technologies: The Landscape in India --> stepsforsanitation.org/2015/12/bio-based...-landscape-in-india/

Incineration and Combustion Toilets: A Product and Patent Landscape --> stepsforsanitation.org/2017/04/incinerat...nd-patent-landscape/

We have also captured business models used by sanitation enterprises, including in:

Sanitation Solutions: Business Models for Access --> stepsforsanitation.org/2016/03/the-sanit...s-models-for-access/

Business Model Assessment of Sewage Treatment Plants --> stepsforsanitation.org/2016/04/business-...ge-treatment-plants/

Outside of STeP resources, I recently saw the Toilet Board Coalition named a number of sanitation enterprises, often deploying proprietary technologies, in a recent report. Technology details are not provided, but they could be chased down with this document as a starting point. --> www.toiletboard.org/media/52-Scaling_the_Sanitation_Economy.pdf

I hope you are able to continue this work. I think resources like yours and others on the SuSana, STeP, TBC, and other sites can help organizations work work more efficiently in the sanitation space.

Best,
Tyler Ovington

Here is the latest revision of the Sanitation Technology Landscape.

Cheers,

Andrew

Hi Elisabeth,

There is certainly some overlap between my table and the SuSanA project database and the IRC Sanitation Business Catalog (the DASRA database links did not take me to something comparable). I think the difference is my format which provides less information and is more easily perused. The idea is that if something looks interesting the user can dig deeper themselves.

Within the next couple months I'll go through both of them and revise my table to include the interesting technologies I find.

Regarding the initiative succeeding...I'm currently updating the table on my own time and will continue to do so if there appears to be sufficient interest from the SuSanA members and people submit information to me about their projects or projects they know of. To date, interest seems rather minimal.

That said, I plan to release another revision this week.

Cheers,

Andrew

Thanks a lot for sharing your Sanitation Tech Landscapes with us! Sharing is caring - so thank you!
Your idea reminds me a bit of the "Sanitation Yellow Pages Online" which is something that pops up from time to time...

I put "Yellow pages" into the search field of the forum and found some previous threads on this:
- By IRC: forum.susana.org/161-sanitation-as-a-bus...w-publication-by-irc
- For India: forum.susana.org/279-knowledge-managemen...tners-in-india-dasra

I have never seen an initiative that really succeeded though. Usually maintenance of such a database is after a while no longer funded...

I wonder if the SuSanA project database fulfills some of the objectives that your sanitation tech landscape is trying to meet as well. It can be filtered by country, technology, sanitation chain element, reuse and so forth. It contains nearly 500 projects by now:
www.susana.org/en/knowledge-hub/projects/database

Do you see any overlap or is your compilation something completely different?

Regards,
Elisabeth

Here is the latest Sanitation Tech Landscape version. I've included Extraction and Transportation tech.

Cheers,

AW

Dear Rao,
The potential initiatives (FSM and DEWATS) that you proposed, did you mean FSTPs for FS and DEWATS for WW or?... I am interested, currently conducting a similar study here in Tanzania.
Regards,

Hi All, here is the latest version of the tech landscape. There is a new section (section 2) and a few modifications to section 1. Feel free to suggest changes and additions.

Hi All,

Attached is a first draft of a Sanitation Technology Landscape. A few things to note:

1. I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to the upkeep of the document so it will be a bit erradict. I will try to release revisions every two weeks or so but that will depend somewhat on feedback provided and interest.
2. Feel free to suggest changes, point out errors and ommisions, etc.
3. I will display other parts of the table after I have a chance to review the content.
4. I lost my references when I converted the file. My apologies for uncited sources.
5. The yellow cells indicate that data is missing.
6. I've removed some information from the original table. If you would like your contact information listed, please let me know.
7. Feel free to email me about any tech you would like to see added to the table.
8. I'll update the file name to include the current date, each time I post a revision. I'll indicate new information and revisions with text color.

Dear John and other SuSanA members

MARI has conducted research study on Faecal Sludge Management in 25 Slums in Warangal Municipal Corporation. I was associated as a technical consultant in the study. We have devised survey formats for collection of primary data from the slums and conducted FGDs with all stakeholders. With the help of these tools, we analysed the existing sanitation status and recommended slumwise potential initiatives for improving sanitation (FSM and DEWATS) initiatives and a consolidated city potential initiatives for improving slum sanitation.

Warm regards G. Kondala Rao

Hi John and other SuSanA members.

John’s original post hasn’t received any responses in a while so I thought I would post something just to make it active again. Surely there have been further development in FSM technology in the last few years. If you are working on something, or know of someone working on something, that other members would be interested in, please mention it on this thread (even if there is already mention of it elsewhere). Posting the SuSanA site can raise awareness of what research and development is going on, who the stakeholders are, identify technical roadblocks that others may be solving, and expedite solution delivery (presumably the main objective of all of us).

I recently completed a small landscape analysis of what FSM tech is in development (concept through testing) or available. I’ll post a table soon that includes information I compiled. Maybe that can become a working document for John’s thread.

Regards,

Andrew

Hi John,

Beaumont has been managing the Omni-Ingestor (OI) project on behalf of the BMGF for a few years and actively involved in developing some of the systems and subsystems of the OI. Feel free to contact me about what you are looking to design and if I can't help, I might be able to point you in the right direction.

Cheers,

Andrew

if it is mobile then it needs to package well - as in deploy, assemble, work, demount (and clean) and redeploy.
I have spent years rabbitting - since late 2010 during Haiti - on about the potential benefits of mobile, flatpack raised latrines.
Contain the waste effectively in the first place and it is easier to come up with local resource maintenance/extraction/processing.
I presented the idea as a CAD at a UNESCO water meet in Holland in 2012.
Now my company, AirCell Structures, is finalising pre-production samples of a complete flatpack latrine and raised latrine 800litre tank kit that flatpacks onto a standard 120*80cms pallet.
The latrine structure can accept a direct drop squat or sit-on plate or a proprietary loo and the tank box can utilise standard 240L oil drums or our custom 800L bag. Extraction is design for either vac-sucking through a rear hatch or you can slide the oil drums out and drag them off on our 'sludge-sledge'.
It is designed to work anywhere and to provide a robust and dignified solution to the major problem in world sanitation!