Table of Contents

• LESSON B1: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SANITATION
  • Overview and summary
  • Material flows in domestic wastewater
    • Different sources
    • Characteristics of different streams
    • Yellow water as fertilizer
    • Brown water as soil conditioner
  • Conventional sanitation systems and their limitations
  • Conventional decentralised sanitation systems – benefits and limitations
  • Resource Management Sanitation
    • Background
    • Bellagio statement
    • Issues of resource management sanitation
    • Source separation as a key issue in resource management sanitation
    • Treatment systems for brown and black water
      • Composting
        • Composting of faecal materials
        • Dehydration
        • Vermicomposting
        • Anaerobic digestion/ fermentation
      • Composting and dehydration toilet systems
        • Existing dehydration toilet systems
        • Effectiveness of existing dehydration toilet systems
        • Existing composting toilet systems
        • Effectiveness of existing composting toilet systems
        • Vermicomposting toilet system
        • Vacuum toilet-biogas plant system
      • Solid-liquid separation systems
      • Rottebehaelter systems
        • Existing Rottebehaelter systems in Germany
        • Effectiveness of Rottebehaelter systems
    • Treatment systems for grey water
      • Biological treatment systems
      • Physical and chemical treatment systems
    • Treatment systems for yellow water
      • Storage and reuse
      • Volume reduction and reuse
    • Benefits of source separation in sanitation
  • References
  • Ecosan internet links