sanitation
Sanitation… small actions big impact
For the past two weeks, I have been exploring the Hygiene, Health and Sanitation module of my course Water and Sanitation for Development MSc and my oh my, it is mind-blowing. This is a field ...
Can we use cleaning products to improve sanitation systems in developing countries?
Toilets, and how we clean them, very rarely comes up in most people’s conversations. We visit the bathroom, do our business, and with one flush and a hand wash later, all evidence and memory of ...
From Malawi to Cranfield…
I grew up in a city where wastewater is a problem. Where its disposal is a nightmare, where institutions mandated to deliver disposal services lack capacity, where everyone just looks the other way or blames someone else. ...
Why I co-organised Ripples make Waves
That picture was taken two years ago. I was talking to a school in the USA, answering questions and translating answers into English from indigenous people talking about their life. Back then, I was working ...
An aspirational toilet for the most deprived & vulnerable
An estimated 2.4 billion people live without improved sanitation, with one in ten people having no choice but to defecate in the open, and diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water kills 315,000 children ...
Developing the Nano Membrane Toilet
The Nano Membrane Toilet is a waterless, self-contained toilet for households of up to 10 people that has been in development since 2012. While the challenge we face – reinventing the toilet to provide access ...