Africa Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Africa Water, Sanitation May -June 2014 Vol.9 No.3 | Page 40

Roundup

Publications
City Partnerships for Urban Sanitation Service
Delivery
The Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation (BMGF) engaged
Castalia to draft a Guidance
Note to inform ten city-level teams funded by BMGF and
UK Department for International Development (DfID),
that are working on various public-private partnerships
to improve urban sanitation services. The Guidance Note
was recently presented by Castalia’s CEO David Ehrhardt
at an adjunct to the Reinvent the Toilet Fair held on March
22-23, 2014 in New Delhi, India that was sponsored by
the Gates Foundation.
This Guidance Note distils lessons from performancebased contracting in sanitation and other sectors to guide
the ten city-level teams in designing and implementing
Service Level Agreements to deliver sanitation services.
This Guidance Note first describes the components of
sanitation services to ensure that the SLAs cover the
critical elements of the sanitation value chain. It then
explains the conceptual and economic framework that
underpins the SLAs. The Note gives practical guidance on
designing and implementing effective SLAs. The appendix
to the Note contains a checklist to ensure all the essential
steps in designing and procuring the contract have been
followed. The final part of the paper presents key terms
for four example SLAs to understand the most important
provisions that would to ensure the contract provides the
desired outcomes.
Graphic Products Releases Guide to Hazardous
Waste Management
Graphic Products, the global leader
in workplace labeling and signage,
has added a free Hazardous Waste
Management Guide to its growing
library of workplace safety resources.
With hundreds of standards,
regulations, and laws addressing
everything from treatment to
transportation to storage and disposal,
hazardous waste management is a complex topic.
The guide answers critical questions about what
is hazardous waste. It also identifies special types
of hazardous waste including universal, medical,
radioactive, and nuclear waste. Finally, the guide provides
critical information about labeling, storing, collecting,
transporting, treating and disposing of hazardous waste.
“We’re on a constant watch for new rules, regulations, and
guidelines to help our customers better understand the
workplace safety challenges they face every day,” said Steve
Stephenson, Graphic Products. “If there’s a safety issue
you’d like to learn more about, please pick up the phone

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and call us and or send an email.”
Written for operations management, EH&S specialists,
regulated waste program managers and other waste
management professionals, the Graphic Products
hazardous waste management guide will help everyone
working within the industry adhere to all the appropriate
safety protocols.

That Glass of Water in a Restaurant?

Source: Pacific Institute.

Need Water Filter? Peel a Tree Branch
By Jennifer Chu, MIT

The guide helps readers to:
• Identify, store, transport, and dispose of hazardous
waste.

If you’ve run out of drinking water during a lakeside
camping trip, there’s a simple solution: Break off a branch
from the nearest pine tree, peel away the bark, and slowly
pour lake water through the stick. The improvised filter
should trap any bacteria, producing fresh, uncontaminated
water.

• Easily find important safety regulations.
• Protect the industrial workforce.
Source: PRWeb

We can do it: Teaching school girls how to
build toilets
Author: Kanyemba, A.
Publisher: Aquamor, Harare,

Zimbabwe
Year: 2012
Pages: 20
Bibliographic information:
Kanyemba, A. (2012). We can do it:
Teaching school girls how to build
toilets. Aquamor,Harare, Zimbabwe
This manual brings some techniques
used to teach people who are not artisans how to build
simple toilets that are suitable for home use and even for
the school. The type of toilet used in Zimbabwe is called
the Blair VIP (Blair Ventilated Improved Pit). The method
described in this booklet shows how the girls can build
the spiral shaped toilet house (superstructure) in bricks.
The girls are taught how to make a slab, make the house
and also how to make a roof. Learning how to build in
bricks is useful and the toilet which is built reminds the
girls that they too can do anything a man or a boy can
do. They enjoy this building and are very proud of their
achievement.
WEDC – A Collection of Contemporary Toilet
Designs
Author: Rod Shaw, ed.
This collection is the result of the
findings of toilet designs are not
included, it does not claim to be fully
comprehensive but it nevertheless
provides a useful overview of current
research and development for
fieldworkers and practitioners as well
as engineers and researchers.

gallons of water a year. To use the silly but ubiquitous
standard measure: this amount of water would fill 31,000
Olympic-sized swimming pools.

California, and much of the southwestern US, is in a
severe drought. Again.
And