SulabhENVIS Articles/Papers

Sustainable Sanitation Technologies to improve health and environment:
Sulabh Experience

Provision of good sanitation and environment are the two major challenges for any country to overcome. While the former is mainly for the development countries due to inadequate awareness, resources as well as infrastructure while the later problem is due to uncontrolled use of natural resources for which developed countries are more responsible than the developing countries...

Hygiene and Sanitation Promotion through ICT Devlopment Tools

In current scenario, some 1.1 billion people on Earth are still without access to safe water supply, and over 2.4 billion are without adequate hygiene and sanitation. Every year, millions of the world's poorest people die from preventable diseases caused by inadequate water supply and sanitation services...

Toilets and Trains

Indian Railways (IR) runs 8700 passenger trains, reaching about 7000 stations and handling approximately 1.6 crore passengers per day. Oe of the commitments of the IR in its 'Citizen's Charter on Passenger Service' on Indian railway's is to provide safe and dependable train services to passengers and ensure adequate passenger amenities in trains and at railway stations...

Creating Safe Environment Through Introduction of Sanitary Latrines in a Rural Area

Environmental sanitation is the backbone of the skeletal make up of a society. A person's quality and character can be judges by the quality of the atmosphere and the environment in dwells in. Villages are the main areas in need of attention for improving the sanitary conditions...

Dignity to Women - Meeting the Millennium Development Goal on Sanitation

Access to safe and hygienic sanitation facilities is imperative to provide privacy, safety and dignity to women and adolescent girls. In developing countries, urbanization is often accompanied by increases in inequalitiy, threats to human security and proliferation of slums, which are characterized by poor sanitation, limited access to clean and safe drinking water...

ECOSAN: The need for a Paradigm Shift to Meet the MDGs

Current conventional approaches to waterwaste management and sanitation tall under the category of either waterborne or dry systems. In both cases the system design is based on the promise that excreta are a waste, and that waste should be disposed. It also assumes that the environment can safely assimilate this waste. Unfortunately many years of experience have shown such conventional approaches are unable to make a significant impact on the sanitary backlog of nearly half of the world's population, and even in cases where conventional approaches have succeeded in providing a functioning sanitary system, their long-term sustainability is questionable, as is their appropriateness to...

Modern Techniques for use of urine as a replacement for chemical fertilizers

Growth in agriculture is increasing in proportion to increase in human population. This entails indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers, which causes tremendous pollution in its production, use and agricultural run offs. Serious environmental hazards are often associated with the use of chemical fertilizers...

Source Separation Technique for Recovery of Nutrients from Human Excreta

Rapid industrialization throughout the 20th century put towards a huge demand for low-cost waste disposal, and industrialized nations allocated vast sum of money to construct centralized sewer systems to serve the combined needs of homes and factories...

Technology and design options for On-Site Sanitation (ECOSAN)

Technology and design options for On-Site Sanitation (ECOSAN)
India has recently celebrated its 60th year of Independence. Among the achievements listed in the past six decades are the making of satellites, satellite launching vehicle, world standard management and HRD development institutions, leadership in the field of information technology...

Towards Development of a Standard For Public Toilets For Developing Countries

Dhaka, one of the fastest growing metropolis of the world with a population growth rate of 7%, lacks the most basic facilities of public toilet for its inhabitants. For more than ten million inhabitants, there are only 69 public toilets in the city run by the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) most of which are in appalling condition...

Toxins in Toilets

Toxins in Toilet
SulabhENVIS Centre in collaboration with the Sulabh International Academy of Environmental Sanitation conducted an Awareness Campaign and Needs Assessment Survey for Sanitation in 10 villages of Rourkela for the Steel Authority of India, Rourkela, Orissa in January-February 2007.