Water Wheel March/April 2019

Abstract

FLUID THOUGHTS A boost for African sanitation Africa, which currently has the world’s largest backlog in access to sanitation, can only come close to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on the back of new technologies and innovations. In doing so she may be able to lead a global sanitation revolution to low-water, low-carbon, decentralised, affordable and sustainable sanitation. The African quest for universal access to safe and dignified sanitation was the topic for discussion when 1 300 delegates from 36 countries gathered at the first joint AfricaSan and Faecal Sludge Management conferences – in Cape Town. This is the first time the two conferences have been combined allowing for unique joint discussion between scientists and innovators who have the new solutions and technologies with practitioners as well as policymakers and political leadership. The real coup was the participation of an emerging African sanitation business sector.

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