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The recent earthquake and tsunami disaster in South Asia has highlighted the importance of having an easily accessible information base for emergency water, sanitation, and hygiene issues. Forces that are increasing people's vulnerability to natural disasters and man-made emergencies, institutional capacity and response by the international community, the importance of proper urban emergency sanitation planning in post disaster recovery--all topics are touched on in our section on Emergency and Disaster Sanitation. Visit this site for the latest publications and links to practical materials for addressing these issues.
Water scarcity resulting from both natural and man-made circumstances
has highlighted the fact that in many parts of the world"wastewater"
is simply too valuable to waste. SaniCon's section on Wastewater
Reuse explores the possibilities of agricultural and aquacultural
reuse of wastewater and includes an extensive list of on-line resources.
In addition, some of the latest publications
deal with topics including the economics of water, guidelines for water
reuse, wastewater use in urban agriculture, and water recycling in Australia.
SaniCon's section on Wastewater
Treatment Technology covers the following topics: waste stabilization
ponds; wastewater storage and treatment reservoirs; constructed wetlands;
chemically enhanced primary treatment, and upflow anaerobic sludge blanket
reactors. In addition, it also includes an extensive list of on-line resources
and publications,
the latest of which deal with topics including domestic wastewater treatment
in developing countries, wastewater and evaporation lagoon construction,
and a case study of cost-effective solutions for sewage treatment in Brazil.
Also refer to the related topic of Wastewater
Use.