ISO Awareness Day – World Toilet Day 2019

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SANS 30500 AWARENESS WORKSHOP

The South African Sanitation Enterprise Programme (SASTEP) and the Department of Water and Sanitation  (DWS) cordially invites you to the SANS 30500 Awareness Workshop.  As the coordinator of the national system of innovation (NSI) around emerging and innovative sanitation technologies in South Africa, SASTEP actively strives to create awareness and to foster an enabling environment […]

WORLD TOILET DAY – LAUNCH OF CLEAR TOILET AT TSHOLETSEGA PRIMARY SCHOOL

  WORLD TOILET DAY – LAUNCH OF CLEAR TOILET AT TSHOLETSEGA PRIMARY SCHOOL   World Toilet Day (WTD) is celebrated annually on 19 November as a call to “encourage behavioral change and the implementation of policies to increase access to sanitation among the poor, along with a call to end the practice of open-air defecation, […]

National Awareness Campaign: Non-sewered Sanitation Landscape & SANS 30500

The Water Research Commission (WRC) in collaboration with the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) is proud to bring you information regarding the Regulations governing this sector as well as an overview of each of these standards: SANS 30500: Non-sewered sanitation systems-Prefabricated integrated treatment units – General safety and performance requirements for design and testing […]

WORLD TOILET DAY DIALOGUE – “Rethinking Sanitation Service Delivery in the Building & Construction Industry”

About World Toilet Day: United Nations coordinates World Toilet Day to celebrate toilets and raise awareness of the billions worldwide living without access to safely managed sanitation. The aim is to elicit action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. The prevalent method of delivering water supply and sanitation services to the home is through bulk water supply and sewer networks, which have worked well for centuries in developed economies. Even in South Africa, suburban households have reticulated water supply and sewerage systems. However, informal dwellings and sparsely populated areas such as rural areas do not lend themselves well to a centralized reticulation system. Difficult topography and the unplanned nature make centralized utility infrastructure cost-prohibitive and impractical. Post-1994, the then-incoming government intended to expand infrastructure to these unplanned and underserved settlements but soon realize the cost of doing so and has since been grappling with service delivery backlogs, and institutional issues such as lack of funds, skills, and ageing infrastructure. The recent green drop report's abject state of current wastewater infrastructure is well documented. Furthermore, other factors like climate change and water stress are threats to this mode of service delivery as it is water and energy intense and unsustainable.