Operational tasks for the upkeep of DEWATS - A DEWATS that is operated and maintained efficiently has the potential to be productive and sustainable - economically, environmentally and socially.

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Written by Susmita Sinha

The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has launched a new volunteer service involving assignments in developing countries. The idea behind the volunteer service is the successful formula of ‘learning by serving’ and its aims are two-fold: to achieve added developmental value for the partner projects and to spark new interest in development issues in Germany.

IIYW conducts trainings for CSC on “Cleaning Agents”

Written by Shilpa Mirashi
BORDA Partner-IIYW

The community toilet complex at Rajendra Nagar, Kolhapur was commissioned on 31^st May 2008. For the last 3 months, about 1200 people per day from Rajendra Nagar are using the facility and have expressed complete satisfaction regarding the quality of the infrastructure and the cleanliness maintained at the community toilet block.

By Vijay Hatangale,
BORDA Partner- IIYW

Mr. Vijay Singhal, Commissioner, Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) visited the CBS-DEWATS project at Rajendranagar and Salokhe Park on 7th Aug. 2008, along with Mr. R.K. Patil, Engineer (KMC) and Mr. Kolekar, Contractor for the Project.

Written by Susmita Sinha

The Annual BORDA Partner Network Meeting 2008 was held in Stockholm, Sweden. This venue was selected with the intention that, along with the Partner Meeting, Network members also participate in the World Water Week and presents themselves as a team working for sanitation in the International Year of Sanitation and showcase their achievements.

Written by Pranai Thapa
Ladakh Ecological Development Group

Udmaroo Village is situated about 154 km away from the main city of Leh and about 35 km from Diskit, the Block Headquarters, Nubra Block, Leh District. It is a densly-populated but isolated village in the Nubra Block. The Village is connected with a 1-km long bridge on the Shayok River from the main road. It presently has 90 households with a population of about 500. The villagers are mostly farmers and are dependent on subsistence agriculture. The main crops are barley, wheat, and mustard along with vegetables like cabbages, leafy vegetables, potato and tomatoes. The soil is very fertile which enables the villagers to attain high production of apricot which can be considered as the main cash crop. Besides, the villagers also depend on rearing sheep, goat and cows to meet their personal needs to sustain themselves during the harsh winter season.  

Written by V.Ganapathy
ExNoRa International
 
The visit last month to the compost Yard in Musiri where the Panchayat is engaged in solid waste management and using the treated water from the DEWATS for composting, galvanized Mr. A. Amuthavel, Chairman of the Kulithalai Municipality, Tamilnadu, one of the youngest Municipal Chairman in the State. On August 1st, CBS-DESWAM was launched in the Town to make the Municipality, a Zero-Waste Model Municipality in the State. On return from Musiri, he contacted Trichy District ExNoRa with a proposal for establishing a DEWATS in the community toilet near Uzhavar Shanty (Farm Producers market) and wanted the work to be taken up early.

Written by Sujatha Premkumar (CDD Chennai Office) and Mr. Tilman Knorr (Anna University)

The Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University, in cooperation with BORDA, had built a decentralised wastewater treatment system (DEWATS) on its campus in 2001 as a field research unit. Since then, this unit had been used by the students of CES and other related departments of the University, for conducting research projects on treatment efficiency of a DEWATS unit. However, in recent years the unit was not being used by the students and had, therefore, run into a state of disrepair. In order to renew the research objectives, BORDA and CDD Society along with CES, Anna University, took up the initiative to renovate the DEWATS unit and restart the research activites.This Project was initiated in February 2008.

by Dr. G. William, RLHP 

The one-day State level Seminar on “People’s Participation in Sanitation Solutions” was organized by RLHP with the support of FEDINA and CDD on 2nd August, 2008 at The Capitol, Bangalore. 60 people from the Ministry of Urban Development, Health Department, Karnataka Slum Clearance Board, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and various other Government Departments, NGO representatives, activists, Partners from CDD, IIYW, Exnora International and reporters from National Newspapers participated actively in the Seminar.

by Bindu Bubber
IIYW                                                                                                         
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The “Consultation Meet on Strategies of Urban Sanitation” Maharashtra, was organized by WSSD-GoM (Water Supply and Sanitation Department, Government of Maharashtra) in Hotel Trident, Mumbai on 10th July 2008. Mr. Manukumar Shrivastav, Principal Secretary, attended the Meet, which was facilitated by Shri A. K. Jain, Principal Secretary, WSSD-GoM and Mrs Chekkala, Joint Secretary WSSD-GoM. The 18 Participants included Chief Officers of Municipal Councils, experts in the sanitation sector, Environment officers, Section Engineers and Water and Sanitation Programme-South Asia team. Presentations in the morning session contributed to better understanding of the need to evolve strategies incorporating various options vis-à-vis the sanitation problem.