The challenges of urban ecological sanitation : lessons from the Erdos eco-town project

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Author:

Rosemarin, Arno, author.

ISBN:

9781853397677

9781853397684

Personal Author:

Rosemarin, Arno, author.

Physical Description:

xiv, 101 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Contents:

1. Introduction -- Global urban sanitation challenges -- Ecological and sustainable sanitation -- Motivation for an ecological design in China -- Site selection -- Project organization -- The planning process -- Implementation process -- 2. Designed to close the loop -- Faeces system -- Urine system -- Greywater system -- Solid waste system -- 3. Operations and maintenance -- Organization -- Household level -- Systems level -- Operating costs -- Environmental impacts -- Health risks -- 4. Research and development -- Toilet model improvements -- Ventilation retrofitting -- Reuse -- 5. Social acceptance -- Living with dry toilets -- Road to flush toilets with onsite treatment -- 6. Lessons learned -- Institutional arrangements -- Technology development -- Social issues and stakeholders -- External factors -- Tipping points -- Killing factors -- Lessons learned and ways forward.

Abstract:

"The book highlights the experience of implementing the Erdos Eco-Town Project in Inner Mongolia, China. This is the largest urban project of urine-diversion dry toilets in the world, serving a population of approximately 3000 people in 4-5 storey apartment buildings. The multi-stoey collection system also links to the on-site grey water treatment, a composting centre, underground urine tanks, and the agricultural reuse of nutrients." -- Book Jacket.

Subject Term:

Sanitation -- China -- Dongsheng Shi (Inner Mongolia)

Sewage -- Purification -- China -- Dongsheng Shi (Inner Mongolia)

Added Author:

McConville, Jennifer R., 1978-

Flores, Amparo E. (Amparo Espino), 1975-

Qiang, Zhu,

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Summary

The need for improved sanitation around the world is becoming a crisis, and the situation is particularly critical in urban and peri-urban areas in developing countries. Here the population is growing rapidly, and where sanitation is provided, the means to treat and dispose of waste safely is neglected, with huge environmental and public health consequences. Sanitation solutions are needed that are safe for the user and interlinked with other urban services which can treat waste as a resource. This book describes an attempt to create modern, multi-storey urban dwellings that incorporate ecological sanitation into their design, resulting in a clean living space, and deriving safe agricultural inputs from human organic waste. The book highlights the experience of implementing the Erdos Eco-Town Project in Inner Mongolia, China. This remains the largest urban project of urine-diversion dry toilets in the world and describes the technical design, daily operation and maintenance, costs and benefits compared to conventional systems, as well as the challenges in achieving acceptability with users. Published in association with Stockholm Environment Institute.