EcoSanRes Programme

Ecosanres is an Ecological Sanitation Programme to meet Millennium Development Goals from the Johannesburg Plan for Ecosystem-Based Sanitation by Containment and Reuse of Downstream Contamination, Human Settlements, Greywater and Sewage Treatment

EcoSanRes: Closing the Loop

Closing the Loop: Ecological Sanitation Focuses On an approach where Water-Borne Human Excreta Is Separated Into Urine, Faeces and Greywater and then recovered for use in Soil Systems to Enhance Agricultural Production and close the Nutrients Cycle.

EcoSanRes Programme

Ecological Sanitation is a Sanitation approach to Recycle Nutrients in Human Excreta with Holistic Systems based on Healthy Ecosystems to Protect from Surface and Ground Water Contamination

EcoSanRes Activities

EcoSanRes has 3 main Activities: Outreach Projects, Capacity Building and Pilot Projects which include Greywater Assessment, Human Excreta, Urine and Feces, Sanitation Systems, Logical Framework, Dissemination, Networking and Promotion Activities

Norms and Attitudes Towards Ecosan and Other Sanitation Systems

Ecological Sanitation is aimed at closing Nutrient and Water Cycles: Study of Wastewater Disposal in six Periurban Settlements, to study Pit latrines, septic tanks Norms and Attitudes towards Faeces, Urine and Human Excreta

Norms and Attitudes towards Ecosan and Other Sanitation Systems (contd.)

Norms And Attitudes Towards Ecological Sanitation: Conventional Solutions Such As Pit Latrines, Flush Toilets Pollute The Groundwater. Reasons For Change Include Malodour, Need To Recycle Nutrients And Remove Pathogens