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Papers to PracticeEpisode 6: Action for resilient citywide sanitation co-developed with local governments in IndonesiaThis episode is part of season that looks at understanding the interrelations between sanitation and climate change. Climate change is real and many people in the world are already getting used to its consequences. Sanitation is affected in multiple ways by climate change. But sanitation is also a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions as we have seen in previous episodes. Unfortunately, the effects of climate change on WASH services are probably going to be worse for the most vulnerable populations.
How can we empower governments in low- and middle-income countries address climate change?
The pa...2022-11-2140 minPapers to PracticeEpisode 5: Review of sanitation technologies for flood-prone areasToday’s episode looks at sanitation technologies appropriate for flood-prone areas--those that experience more sudden and regular occurrences of flooding, whether it be related to our ever changing climate or the historical trends in the region.
For this episode we have a guest interviewer, Marcio Botto, who is a WASH Service Advisor at CAWST and fluent in Portuguese. Originally, we had discussed doing the entire interview in Portuguese, but decided to move forward with the interview in English. Regardless, we thought why not shake it up a bit with a new interviewer. In this episode, Marcio talks wi...2022-10-1834 minPapers to PracticeEpisode 4 (LIVE): GHG emissions from different sanitation systemsOur ever changing climate presents major threats to both water and sanitation services. This we have known for some time! AND interestingly (perhaps tragically), sanitation is one of the contributors to THIS change.
The sanitation sector contributes between 2 and 6 percent of the earth’s methane and between 1 and 3 percent of the nitrous oxide emissions. While they are lower in concentration compared to carbon dioxide, they are powerful contributors.
To ensure universal access to water and sanitation services over the long-term requires not only that we understand and improve system and service resilience, BUT ALSO that we...2022-09-1543 minPapers to PracticeEpisode 3: Whole-system analysis reveals high greenhouse-gas emissions from citywide sanitationThe public health benefits of sanitation are widely recognized. To minimize the disease pathways at the city scale, everyone needs to have access to safely managed sanitation. That said, public health is not the only consideration. Global estimates of greenhouse gas emissions have not taken into account the complex service chain in growing cities, which has led to the underestimation of these emissions and their overall impact on the environment.
This interview unpacks an assessment carried out in Kampala, Uganda to better estimate emissions from all stages of the sanitation service chain, ultimately to be enable decisions...2022-08-1537 minPapers to PracticeEpisode 2: The ‘How Tough’ framework for assessing the climate resilience of water & sanitationOur ever changing climate presents major threats to both water and sanitation services. To ensure universal access to these water and sanitation services over the long-term requires that we understand and improve system and service resilience. Resilience is NOT about building unfailing infrastructure, but rather looks at the robustness of different systems and their ability to return to normal function in a relatively short amount of time after a climate event in order to minimize the public health and environmental consequences of failure. This episode talks about a measurement framework to assess the resilience of water and sanitation to ultimately...2022-07-2654 min
Papers to PracticeEpisode 1: Occupational safety of desludging operatorsThe safety of sanitation workers remains an often-ignored aspect of fecal sludge management. This paper, using an inductive, unbiased approach to highlight a number of safety issues faced by sanitation workers, including exposure of sludge, even in a mechanized context. The paper identifies three safety concerns: inhalation of harmful gasses, contact with sludge, and physical injury. When it comes to measures to mitigate these risks, the paper looks broadly at elimination, substituting, controlling, and finally personal protective equipment (PPE). The bigger discussion is about who is responsible. Often there are high expectations of these sanitation workers to address all th...2022-06-1549 minPapers to PracticePapers to Practice - 2022 TrailerBased on the uptake of the 3 episodes launched in 2021, we have decided to have a go at it again in 2022!
The sanitation sector continues to innovate and evolve in order to tackle the persistent and emergent challenges related to delivering inclusive safely managed services globally. To support these efforts and facilitate sharing across the globe, we too have evolved in the knowledge management space. Turns out busy professionals welcomed listening as an alternative to reading when it comes to sanitation research and publications.
In 2022, CAWST & EAWAG have expanded the season to 6 episodes, building off what w...2022-04-1201 minPapers to PracticeEpisode 3: Treatment Technology Selection to Improve Resource RecoveryOne of our greatest challenges in the sector is combating the "disgust factor" and shifting how professionals and the public alike view fecal sludge and wastewater. In our first episode this season, we talked about the risks of unsafely managed sanitation and how to better assess the relative risk of different exposure pathways using the SaniPath tool. While unmanaged excreta poses a great risk to public and environmental health, it also presents a great opportunity when it is managed and treated. Shifting the perspective from waste to resource means managing the risks as was shared by Dr. Charles Niwagaba in...2021-12-1541 minPapers to PracticeEpisode 2: Microbial Risk of Fecal Sludge Use in Ugandan AgricultureReuse, reuse, reuse! In the face of resource depletion and the persistent need for improved fecal sludge management, fecal sludge is growing as a source for energy and nutrients.
In this episode, Dr. Charles Niwagaba, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Makerere University and FSM extraordinaire, talks about the risks associated with fecal sludge use for agriculture and practical mitigation strategies to maximize the benefits, while ensuring risk reduction with its use.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paperstopractice/message2021-11-1537 min
Papers to PracticeEpisode 1: SaniPath- A Decision Support Tool to Prioritize Citywide Sanitation InterventionsNow, more than ever, there are tools emerging to support cities to diagnose the sanitation situation, and more effectively assess and prioritize sanitation investments. SaniPath is one such tool!
Back in 2016, the SaniPath Exposure Assessment Tool was developed by the Centre for Global Safe WASH at Emory to identify, compare, and inform decisions based on the risks posed by common fecal exposure pathways. Since then, the tool has been used to advocate and inform decisions related to sanitation policy, investment, and program design in countries including Ghana, Bangladesh, India, Mozambique, and Cambodia.
In this episode, we sit with the authors o...2021-10-2532 minPapers to PracticePapers to Practice - TrailerWhat is Papers to Practice?
A series that makes sanitation research and other information-dense publications accessible to busy professionals working to deliver inclusive, safely managed sanitation services globally. We sit with authors and ask them who should know about the paper and what are the key points to be able to put these papers to practice.
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paperstopractice/message2021-10-0401 min