Nexus projects - linking sanitation to agriculture (Food production and settlement hygiene in poor peri-urban regions in India)

Purpose

To mainstream and scale up the practices established in Nexus pilot-scale interventions, and to share the gained knowledge and experiences with a wider audience

Activities

Nexus Project – Food Production and Settlement Hygiene in Poor Peri-Urban Regions in India - creates the missing link between safe sanitation and food production, to enable the safe reuse of products from various sanitation systems. The project is jointly implemented by CDD Society Bangalore and BORDA. Now, in the third and final year of the project period, the aim is to mainstream and scale up the practices established in Nexus pilot-scale interventions, and to share the gained knowledge and experiences with a wider audience.

The demonstration projects are to be established under four main concepts:

DEWATS (Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems)
Intervention for enhancing nourishment among children and women in peri-urban communities.

Faecal Sludge Treatment
Intervention for Settlement Hygiene and reuse of treated and co-composted sludge in agriculture

UDDT (Urine Diverting Dry Toilets/”EcoSan”)
Intervention for reuse of EcoSan products in agriculture

Risk Mitigation measures
Intervention in reuse of untreated wastewater in food production

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Objectives

The three-year-project Nexus started in January 2015 with the overall objectives to:

1. Improve health through reduction in undernourishment and safe sanitation
2. Reduce environmental degradation and protect natural resources
3. Improve living conditions for poor peri-urban communities

Contact information

Clara Nicolai
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Decentralised wastewater treatment (e.g. DEWATS) East Asia & Pacific Faecal sludge treatment processes Faeces or faecal sludge Fertiliser Food security and productive sanitation German government Greywater or wastewater Health and hygiene International NGO Peri-urban Political processes and institutional aspects Practitioners Protein for animal food Public awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Resource recovery Specific to one or several countries Treatment of faecal sludge Treatment of wastewater or greywater Urine diversion dehydration toilets (UDDTs) WASH and nutrition Water (irrigation, process, other)

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