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Dear Mughal,
Regarding your call for SuSanA to develop guidance manuals on impacts of climate change on sanitation and water supply facilities; I just want to inform you that SuSanA WG3 (Renewable energies and climate change) is leading a paper on linkages between sanitation and climate change. This aims at providing some general guidance on how sanitation can help address climate change. The initial drafting of this paper has been supported by the SuSanA Phase III project and by a group of students from the Cranfield University. Later this year I expect that the draft paper will be shared on the forum to receive comments and feedback from Forum members.

I can also recommend having a look at the factsheet from WG3 'Links between sanitation, climate change and renewable energies' that provides some useful orientation.

All the best,
Kim

Dear Kim,

That is nice and interesting. Could I know, when the final study would be ready; and how we can access it?

Regards,

F H Mughal

Dear Mughal,
According to the preliminary time plan, the draft discussion paper on linkages between sanitation and climate change will be shared with a broader audience at the end of August, in connection with Stockholm World Water Week 2017. Signing up as a member of WG3 is one way to be kept in the information loop!

Best regards,
Kim

Dear all,
Sorry for the silence in reporting back about the progress on this factsheet/discussion paper on linkages between sanitation and climate change, that I mentioned a couple of months ago. We have deviated somewhat from the original timeline. We are still working on a initial version, that we aim to have ready to share on the forum for feedback, linked to the COP in Bonn in November. Please see the presentation from the 24th SuSanA meeting in Stockholm, 26 Aug 2017, which provide a background to the paper and an overview of proposed content. See:
www.susana.org/files/Susana-meeting-August-26_EC.pdf
Of course we are happy to receive any comments on this first idea of structure of the paper. But we especially look forward to your feedback and potential contributions when we have the first draft of the paper in the beginning of November.

All the best,
Kim

This post goes together with Kim's post above from 20 September (scrol to Page 1 of the thread).

I just wanted to make you aware that there is also a video from the presentation that he had mentioned:

Willy Alarcon and Astrid Michels (GIZ:) Sanitation and Climate Change Discussion Paper

This link here will hopefully jump you to the right time in the video:

Video at the right time

Or go here and fast forward to 1:48:29



The powerpoint presentation that goes with the video is available here:
www.susana.org/en/events/susana-meetings...na-meeting-stockholm

Or direct link here:
www.susana.org/files/Susana-meeting-August-26_EC.pdf

Dear SuSanA WG3 members,

it has been a long and tough process but eventually we are happy to present the final draft of the new Working Group factsheet “Opportunities for sustainable sanitation in climate action” (attached). If you are able to review it, please send your comments by the latest 08th March 2019 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Best regards,
Kim / Sören / Thorsten

Dear WG-members,

the SuSanA WG3 Background Paper "Opportunities for sustainable sanitation in climate action" (former: factsheet) which was presented at World Water Week 2019 is available for download in the library and attached to this message.

Thanks for your valuable inputs and best regards,
Kim / Thorsten / Sören

Hi Sören and co-authors,
Thanks for that. Your factsheet looks great.

Couple of small comments:

I am not sure if the hydropower option is really so significant that it warrants being in the executive summary. You wrote:

Hydropower generation
It is possible to install turbines along wastewater systems,
including in place of pressure breakers; for example, before or
after the treatment plant. This approach has been used in the
city of Quito, Ecuador, where the hilly topography ensures strong
flows (Armijos et al. 2015).

I wonder if this is an isolated case. Normally wastewater flows by gravity or it has to be pumped up. I can't imagine that there is usually much head to play with. Is there a publication that reviews this technical option rather than just giving one example in Ecuador?

That picture of Peter Morgan's corn cobs with and without urine must be in hundreds of publications by now.

And I don't think that "flickr" needs to be mentioned in the captions for the photos. Flickr is just the platform where we store the SuSanA-photos but they have no copyright. The copyright is solely with the author. I would make it like this:
Sewage treatment plant Zagreb by IVAN VRANIĆ HVRANIC / SuSanA secretariat

Finally I always wonder: how can we reach to outside of our WASH sector with this information? So my go-to place is Wikipedia. Therefore, I have now added some information about the link to climate change to the Wikipedia article on sanitation (this article gets about 1000 views per day).

Please see here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation#Climate_change

Climate change
Climate change can have negative impacts on existing sanitation services in several ways: damage and loss of services from floods and reduced carrying capacity of waters receiving wastewater.[48] Water and sanitation services contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. To reduce those emissions, the following can be done: Choice of wastewater treatment technologies, improved pumping efficiency, use of renewable sources of energy, and within-system generation of energy offer potential for reducing emissions.[48] Sustainable sanitation systems can lead to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by producing renewable energy in the form of biogas, hydropower, heat recovery or directly from excreta.[49] These options have additional mitigation potential.

(click on the link above to see the various hyperlinks within this paragraph)

I cited also a paper by Jamie Bartram from 2016.

Are there more key sentences that should be added (note we are speaking to lay persons with this article)?

Regards,
Elisabeth