The Presentations from Speakers from nine Countries are available for Download

By Gert Kreutzer, BORDA Bremen

The presentations from speakers of the 5th international BORDA BNS Workshop with the title „Improving Emergency Sanitation“ are now available for download.

Water and Sanitation Experts from countries from four continents four continents (Myanmar, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, South Africa, Australia, Sweden, Great Britain and Germany) introduced the 41 workshop participations impressively to the current situation of basic sanitation activities and problems in disaster and refugee camps.

Waisenhaus und Grundschule in Kambodscha erhalten sanitäre Grundversorgung

Von Gert Kreutzer, BORDA Bremen

Dank der Spenden von Bremer Bürgerinnen und Bürgern sowie des Hilfswerkes des Ostasiatischen Vereins Bremen e.V. (OAV) kann BORDA hilft nun in Kambodscha die sanitäre Grundversorgung in einem Waisenheim und einer Grundschule verbessern. Die Spenden aus Bremen in Höhe von Euro 16.728,- haben es möglich gemacht, dass BORDA eine Kooperation mit UNICEF und lokalen Gebern eingehen konnte und so insgesamt 43.013 US $ für die sanitäre Versorgung von Waisenkindern und Grundschülern umsetzen kann.
Herzlichen Dank an alle Spender.

Article in English here

Experts from 4 Continents will attend the Workshop on Emergency Sanitation

All Seats Taken!

By Gert Kreutzer, BORDA Bremen

35 Sanitation Experts from South Africa, Nigeria, Myanmar, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines, Australia, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany will share their experiences and discuss next steps for improvements of basic sanitation in emergencies. Due to the great demand for participation, all seats are taken now and no further registrations are possible.

The objective of this workshop is to establish communication, facilitate professional exchange and initiate co-operations between sanitation practitioners and emergency sanitation agencies that ultimately may lead to improvements in sanitation services and public health within emergency settlements.

For further information, please refer to the attached file with the final workshop programme. For any questions concerning the results of the workshop, please contact: Gert Kreutzer: kreutzer@borda.de or Andreas Ulrich: ulrich@borda.de

- Key benefits of the proven solution DEWATS

- Current sanitation situation in target countries

By Lara Martens

The BORDA-IWA conference on „Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Solutions in Developing Countries”, March 23-25 Surabaya 2010, is a unique opportunity to further promote DEWATS and the BORDA-network’s expertise to an audience of global sanitation key-stakeholders. Demand for DEWATS solutions will continue to grow over the next years since decentralized wastewater treatment and community-based sanitation solutions are currently at the brink of being regarded as “mainstream”. Therefor the focus of this conference is timely and much in demand, not only on the technical, engineering components for decentralized systems, but on the social, institutional and financial variables.

Upcoming Training Programms in the new CDD Trainingcentre

by Lara Martens, BORDA Germany

The Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) aims to create a knowledge base for up-scaling decentralised basic need services through its capacity building approach. The CDD Network is organising two new training programmes – the National Level Engineers’ Training on Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems (DEWATS) from August 17-22, 2009 and International On-site Training Programme on Community Based Micro Hydro Power Units from September 21-October 2, 2009.