Early testing of new sanitation technology for urban slums: The case of the Blue Diversion Toilet.

ABSTRACT: The toilets used most in informal urban settlements have detrimental consequences for the environment and human health due to the lack of proper collection and treatment of toilet waste. Concepts for safe, sustainable and affordable sanitation systems exist, but their feasibility and acceptance have to be investigated at an early stage of development, which is difficult due to the high costs of building working models. In this paper, we present an approach to estimate acceptance in a valid and representative form with only one working model, and apply it to test an innovative zero-emission toilet with recycling of wash water. Four basic principles were specified for investigation and nine hypotheses formulated to test the feasibility and acceptance of these principles: source separation of

SUBMITTER: Tobias R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5179495 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature