Water Wheel Jan/Feb 2021: Safe Sanitation

Abstract

New sanitation technology brings dignity to Gauteng school SASTEP , a programme developed by the Water Research Commission (WRC) in partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Department of Science and Innovation, seeks to enable the development of suitable sanitation technologies in South Africa towards the creation of a viable sanitation market. The programme does this by fast-tracking the adoption of innovative and emerging sanitation technologies in South Africa through fostering local manufacturing and commercialisation. The core strategy of the programme is to support and empower sanitation innovators (technology partners) and sanitation entrepreneurs (commercial partners). This is undertaken in support of government initiatives such as SAFE (Sanitation Appropriate for Education), aimed at replacing pit latrines and other unsafe forms of sanitation at schools with more appropriate and sustainable technologies.

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