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Declaring ODF: Is it enough for Sustainable Sanitation? |
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?Nepal is driving its sanitation for all by 2017 campaign rapidly and ODF declaration has been a major tool for it. Almost each day a VDC is being declared as ODF but is it really promoting sustainable sanitation?? Participants of WASH Forum June series jointly organised by Paschim Paaila and Environment and Public Health organization (ENPHO) on 28th June 2013 were eager to know the answer. Bipin Dangol Program Manager at ENPHO was ready to answer the question and address the mass with the topic ?Faecal Sludge Management: Current need for Sustainable Sanitation.? ?Every morning when you sit to defecate please think where your faeces are going.? Dangol started his presentation. Sharing the information on comparatively new concept of faecal sludge management Dangol highlighted on the passage of our faeces to the environment. He clarified that no matter if we have on site sanitation for example safety tank or we have off site sanitation that is sewerage the ultimate disposal site is nature which is polluting nature. He suggested learning from case of Bangladesh which is having trouble with managing faecal sludge at present which promoted ODF few years back and achieved good sanitation status. Nepal is also promoting onsite sanitation at present as a part of ODF campaign which has to be emptied one day. ?If we do not start developing mechanism from now we will also have serious issue of faecal sludge management in future,? he warned. ?Improved sanitation does not necessarily mean sustainable sanitation we all need to be aware of it,? he stressed and told that ODF is the first step for improved sanitation but there is a lot more to do for sustainable sanitation. He also pointed out lack of awareness and clarification in concept, high cost, techniques and social acceptance as major challenges in promoting faecal sludge management. Also he pointed out at some failure projects of faecal treatment projects at Pokhara and Teku due to similar reasons. However he also showed faecal management as an opportunity to maintain our water resource and environment clean. Faecal sludge management starts right from the collection of the sludge to final disposal/reuse, however the management practise greatly depend upon character of sludge such as fresh or digested with varied degree of concentration. He suggested faecal sludge co-treatment as one of the suitable faecal sludge management practices for which solid-liquid separation is must. ?Since it?s a comparatively new topic no one can suggest a method with certainty but so far faecal sludge co- treatment seems to work,? he justified. He also pointed out some topics for research as its new topic in the world itself. ?Inventory of characteristics of sludge and the current status of offsite and onsite sanitation practise with reference to its usefulness in sustainable sanitation could be two good topics for research,? he suggested. Altogether 45 participants from different institutions School of Environmental Science and Management (SchEMS), Ratna Rajya Campus, KMC, NAMS, Khwopa College, Tri-Chandra Campus, Asian College and Hope Int?l College attended the program with great interest and enthusiasm.
Merina Shakya, the network coordinator of Paschim Paaila thanked Dangol for his sharing on Faecal Sludge Management and handed over the token of love. The forum ended with a group photo session.
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45 Comments
Thank you for sharing
Posted 23-08-2013 10:38
ODF can just be starting, a first step for improved sanitation, sustainable sanitation is pretty far away
Posted 25-07-2013 22:28
thank you for the comments..hope you all will spread the information to other as well
Posted 23-07-2013 18:45
thank you Bishwo
Posted 23-07-2013 18:42
very true Shyrra, we ought to be careful of our sanitation system
Posted 23-07-2013 18:39
off site sanitation is really important..
Posted 22-07-2013 00:46
people awareness is very important..very informative. Thanks for sharing!
Posted 21-07-2013 17:37
Informative article
Posted 18-07-2013 04:15
Thank you for this article! We should really be aware of developing proper sanitation.
Posted 16-07-2013 16:14
Not really Christy, since we are promoting on site sanitation, it is also necessary for us to think about faecal sludge management. still most of the people practise on site sanitation and there are very few who practise off site sanitation. In this context, we need to develop systems that can treat those faecal sludge and prevent from being disposed into rivers and other water bodies. we have already started with some good initiatives such as pit latrines and septic tanks now we have few years to develop it, and we should be starting right away..
Posted 16-07-2013 11:18
thank you Rohan and Raunak
Posted 16-07-2013 11:14
thank you Jeric
Posted 16-07-2013 11:14
thank you Sneha
Posted 16-07-2013 11:13
very true Smriti but yes the management of faecal sludge is also vital
Posted 16-07-2013 11:12
thank you Joma
Posted 16-07-2013 11:11
Thank you, it's informative! It would require change of life style in a huge scale but! we need to choice this way. it's better :)
Posted 16-07-2013 09:38
great articulation and as usual an amazing report
Posted 16-07-2013 02:58
amazing report pratap
Posted 16-07-2013 02:11
nice
Posted 14-07-2013 15:03
nice article:)
Posted 14-07-2013 14:17
thank you for sharing this pratap, in my opinion, certainly ODF is not enough for sustainable sanitation, Sustainable sanitation needs much more like awareness, and other sanitation programs to develop positive attitude in people.
Posted 14-07-2013 13:43
nice iformation
Posted 14-07-2013 12:39
you are welcome Yuvraj..
Posted 14-07-2013 10:05
Very true Dhiraj, ODF ca be a step towards sustainable sanitation but it is not all in all
Posted 14-07-2013 10:04
thank you Fanisa
Posted 14-07-2013 10:03
thank you very much Rey..
Posted 14-07-2013 10:03
Very true Aditya, since we are at the beginning phase of developing our systems why not develop sustainable? or eventually we can walk on path of sustainability but a strategy for the same should be there.
Posted 14-07-2013 10:01
you are most welcome Nikita
Posted 14-07-2013 09:57
Thank you Jeric
Posted 14-07-2013 09:56
thank you very much Bhawana, expecting to get your opinion upon the question if sustainable
Posted 14-07-2013 09:56
thanks for sharing :)
Posted 14-07-2013 08:18
yes, only ODF can't sustain sanitation alone, nice article
Posted 13-07-2013 15:09
nice article :)
Posted 13-07-2013 15:07
what a good article
Posted 13-07-2013 15:03
Thank you for highlighting this. While the poor or developing nations work on providing proper sanitation facilities for all and work towards being ODF communities, it is very important to keep in mind the that the sanitation provided is sustainable.
Posted 13-07-2013 14:59
thank you for sharing
Posted 13-07-2013 14:46
nice one
Posted 13-07-2013 14:10
thank you for sharing..
Posted 13-07-2013 14:00
thank you Manoj and ODF means Open Defecation Free ..
Posted 13-07-2013 12:39
thank you very much Diwas.
Posted 13-07-2013 12:38
really,informative..
Posted 13-07-2013 11:06
by the way what is the full form of ODF, is there in the article, did i miss it?
Posted 13-07-2013 03:11
informative indeed!
Posted 13-07-2013 03:10
being bph students it's so informative..'
Posted 12-07-2013 23:40
sorry guys, before posting the second part of my previous article I have posted this report. actually I had participated in this forum and thought it worth sharing so...
please go through it..hope this one will also be useful
Posted 12-07-2013 20:27