From Toilets to Treatment : CSE
Date: Monday 20th Nov 23 / Time: 3:00 pm – 4: 30 pm / Mode: Zoom ( English)
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications. We call this knowledge-based activism. We hope we will make a difference.
India is experiencing a paradigm shift in sanitation management. A sewered system of sanitation is giving way to non-sewered methods. More than eight states in the country have moved towards mainstreaming faecal sludge and septage management (FSSM) through construction of faecal sludge treatment plants (FSTPs) and co-treatment of sewage with septage at existing STPs.
CSE is marking World Toilet Day 2023 with a webinar to assess and review the performance of FSTPs in terms of their design parameters. Save the day in your calendar, register and join us.
FOR MORE DETAILS, CONTACT:
JYOTI PARSAD DADHICH
Email: jyoti.parsad@cseindia.org
Phone: +91 8559838864
