Personal and fairly maverick views on how international sanitation targets can be achieved
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Sanitation coverage in Africa
The WHO/UNICEF JMP publication A Snapshot of Sanitation in Africa, launched at AfricaSan2008 (see blog of 21 February), is available in pdf format here. Well worth reading!
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.