Sustainable Sanitation Conference Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 2012 Tim Forster

Sustainable Excreta Disposal latrines consistently used the community / society is maintaining latrine coverage at 100% no significant risk to community health no significant degradation of the environment maintained over a prolonged period i.e. 20 years

Urban sanitation Urban area often have high latrine coverage rates, suffer three major problems. Space Cost and design of latrine Emptying

Large volume pits needing emptying every 10 to 15 years Low volume receptacles Frequency of emptying process Storage volume at the house How ? weekly collection for 12 litres bucket monthly collection for 50 litres bucket six monthly collection for 200 litres plastic bins Increasing operation cost Increasing capital cost

Emptying Pit desludging, mechanical or manual. Desludging trucks often too big, and expensive Other? Maybe a bucket? Use of Frogmen “What is the point of using a latrine if your neighbours faeces comes into your home?”