I’ve looked at the various EcoSan websites (such as Ecosanres, GTZ and WASTE) and there’s no mention of the abandonment of the complex EcoSan system in Erdos (see blog of 6 June), and nothing on the SIDA website or the website of the Swedish Embassy in Beijing either. No surprise, I suppose, but disappointing nonetheless.
There’s a new report on the Ecosanres site: Comparing Sanitation Systems Using Sustainability Criteria. No mention at all of Erdos! Even so, worth a quick look − read the Conclusions and make up your own mind!
About Me
- Duncan Mara
- University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- 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.