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Technical, Environmental & Economic Challenges

Location: Santiago de Compostela, Spain In this Conference, wastewater treatment will be faced from a global approach, meaning that issues about new processes and technologies will be considered together with those related to emissions, economy and environmental analysis in an integrated perspective.

The 4th international Dry Toilet Conference will be held at the University of Tampere, Finland in August 2012. The main theme of the conference is Drivers for ecological dry toilets in urban and rural areas.

April 30th is the final deadline to submit an abstract or side event proposals.

Based on feedback received, a sanitation focused theme, “Making Sanitation Benefits Achievable and Sustainable for All” has been added to the 2012 Water and Health Conference. In addition, the themes “Household-centered WaSH,” and “WaSH and Child Health” focus on sanitation. We are seeking proposals for all themes, but in particular those that are centered on sanitation.

First announcement and call for papers

The Third African Sanitation and Hygiene Conference held in Kigali, Rwanda from 19-21 July 2011 indicated that the scale of the challenge facing sanitation and hygiene remains formidable. 584 million people in Africa do not have access to safe sanitation services and 231 million people still practice open defecation. The poorest twenty percent are twenty times more likely to defecate in the open than the richest twenty percent. The conference learned of the scale of impact from poor sanitation on education, economic growth, productivity, tourism, the environment and the management of infrastructure. Improving Faecal Sludge Management was identified as a significant new area of learning. FSM need to be incorporated within city-wide systems and effective business models developed and implemented.