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2010 - 2015
Water For People »
Catalyzing sanitation businesses (market‐based approach to sanitation businesses in developing countries)


Sanitation as a Business (SAAB) is intended to explore different methodologies for catalyzing and facilitating sanitation businesses targeting low-income markets of developing countries.

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2011 - 2015
International Water Management Institute »
Scaling out the recovery of nutrients and organic matter from faecal sludge for food production in Ghana: From Waste to Food (WaFo)


To convert excreta into safe and efficient fertilizer pellets that could enhance agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa and make fecal sludge reuse commercially attractive.

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2011 - 2015
University of KwaZulu-Natal »
Data acquisition and field support for sanitation projects


Phase 1 is about designing, prototyping, and evaluating a toilet system that can safely dispose of pollutants and recover valuable materials. The objective of phase 2 is to characterise physical and chemical properties of different excreta streams.

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2010 - 2015
Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology »
VUNA - Promoting sanitation and nutrient recovery through urine separation (Valorisation of urine nutrients in Africa)


This project developed a system to collect source-separated urine and process it into fertiliser. Collection logistics, treatment technologies, and social and economic assessments of nutrient recovery were some of the activities.

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2014 - 2015
Pivot Ltd.
Pivot Plant: Converting human waste to fuel to finance complete sanitation


Pivot is building the first faecal sludge to solid fuel facility,

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2013 - 2015
American Standard Brands
Sanitation Product Development for Sub-Saharan Africa - Development of affordable, aspirational latrine products for markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SaTo)


Commercialization of one or more products that facilitate the construction of hygienic rural latrines.

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2013 - 2015
rice (Research Institute for Compassionate Economics)
SQUAT (Sanitation Quality, Use, Access, and Trends): Evidence based sanitation advocacy for India


To influence Indian policy, such that the government – at its various levels – might better pursue an end to open defecation, especially in rural India, which is r.i.c.e.’s focus.

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2011 - 2015
North Carolina State University »
Excrevator - Reliable and hygienic pit emptying system using modified power augers


To modify and test a portable, gasoline powered earth auger that can be used to more efficiently and hygienically empty septic tanks, cesspits and latrines.

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2011 - 2015
University of Rochester
Development of superhydrophobic surfaces for sanitation solutions


The superhydrophobic material will repel wastes and collect clean water with virtually no external energy needed.

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2011 - 2015
Fundación In Terris
Earth auger toilet: Innovation in waterless sanitation


To develop several prototypes of a mechanised, pedal-operated, low-cost, easy-to-use, odourless urine-diverting dry toilet (UDDT).

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2011 - 2015
Beijing Sunnybreeze Technologies Inc
Fecal sludge extraction and disposal system in situ


Disposal of human waste in situ by an column-like facility; evaporating liquid from raw sewage powered by solar-thermal energy; removing pathogens by raising temperature over 140C

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2011 - 2015
University of Toronto
Unit operations approach for rapid disinfection of human waste based on drying/smoldering of solid and sand filtration/UV disinfection of liquid waste (Toronto Toilet)


Household scale wastewater treatment plant through sanitizing feces within 24 hours through mechanical dehydration and smoldering and sanitizing urine through membrane filtration and ultraviolet disinfection.

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2011 - 2015
Rice University
Solar steam sterilizer for treatment of human waste


Light-absorbing nanoparticles dispersed in water and illuminated by sunlight produce steam that is used to treat human excreta.

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2013 - 2015
Duke University
Neighborhood-scale treatment of fecal sludge by supercritical oxidation


The project seeks to demonstrate that both, supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) and supercritical water gasification (SCWG), a related technology, have prominent roles to play in solving the world’s sanitation challenges.

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2011 - 2015
University of Delaware
Breathable membrane enclosures for fecal sludge stabilization


To test the use of breathable membranes to protect surrounding groundwater or floodwaters from contamination, while allowing fecal sludge to condense and stabilize.

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2011 - 2015
Loowatt Ltd
Energy-producing waterless toilet system


Developing and testing a waterless toilet that seals and stores waste in biodegradable film, within a portable container, for easy transport to a local anaerobic digester in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

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2011 - 2015
University of Colorado Boulder
Sol-Char Toilet: Using concentrated solar energy to stabilize fecal waste and produce a valuable soil amendment


Concentrated Solar energy heats the fecal matter up to 750°C and produces thereby char for agricultural soil application.

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2011 - 2015
University of South Florida
NEWgenerator for recovery of nutrients, energy and water from human wastes


The NEWgenerator is a hybrid anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) machine which is packaged in a small-footprint modular housing for off-grid deployment and can be paired with pit latrines, septic tanks, fecal sludge pits and self-standing toilets.

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2011 - 2015
Columbia University in New York
Fecal sludge to biodiesel – production of chemicals, pathogen reduction and feedstock variability


Developing a technology based on anaerobic fermentation and digestion to convert faecal sludge into biodiesel precursors and biogas and setting up a social enterprise model that reinvests the revenues into improving sanitation for the urban poor.

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2011 - 2014
Agricultural Development Association (PARC)
Food Security Thematic Programme in favour of the oPt (occupied Palestinian Territories)


Anzah village and Biet Dajan produce more food through sustainable and safe use of reclaimed wastewater

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2012 - 2014
Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Science and Technology »
Projet Communautaire pour l'Accès à l'Eau (In French: Community project for access to water)


Testing of three types of ventilated dry toilet systems

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2013 - 2014
mWater Foundation
mWater: Mobile Technology for Social Water Monitoring in Low-resource Settings


Building on the rapid growth of the mobile phone market in developing countries, mWater’s monitoring system uses an Android app to read its low-cost tests and instantly uploads the results to the cloud, creating a mapped database accessible to the public.

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2013 - 2014
University of Maryland
Incentivizing Sanitation with Biogas in Haiti


The University of Maryland will test a technological solution to two critical needs in Haiti – the need for effective wastewater treatment to help curb the cholera epidemic, and the need for decentralized, low-cost energy sources.

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2013 - 2014
Bear Valley Ventures Ltd.
Getting Hands Clean Where it Matters Most – Hand Hygiene Product Innovation for the Poor


Bear Valley Ventures is investigating how to radically improve hand hygiene habits in India, through product innovation. Clean Hands Inc (CHI) develops products for the urban poor that can be used by households with substandard or no sanitation.

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2011 - 2014
International Development Enterprises (iDE)
The Cambodia Sanitation Marketing Scale Up Project (SMSU)


To achieve market-based sanitation solutions in rural Cambodia and support the dissemination and replication of the Sanitation Marketing approach into other countries.

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