Personal and fairly maverick views on how international sanitation targets can be achieved
Saturday, 12 January 2008
IYS 2008
Well, here we are in the International Year of Sanitation. This blog will give some fairly maverick views on the topic, promote good ideas, and 'expose' those that are not so good. Watch this space!
I'm an emeritus professor of civil engineering at the University of Leeds in England. I've been working on low-cost sanitation in developing countries since the mid-1970s, and also on low-cost wastewater treatment and reuse. I was a lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1970-73 and then a senior lecturer at the University of Dundee, Scotland, 1974-79 before moving to Leeds in late 1979. I was a visiting professor of sanitary engineering at the Universidade Federal da Paraiba in Campina Grande, northeast Brazil, during 1976-95, and since 1996 I have been a visiting professor of environmental engineering at the Instituto Cinara, Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia.