Personal and fairly maverick views on how international sanitation targets can be achieved
Thursday, 27 August 2009
WaterAid interview
Watch this video in which Barbara Frost, Chief Executive of WaterAid, interviews Douglas Alexander, MP, the UK Secretary of State for International Development − DFID is “the part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries”.
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.