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Ecological Sanitation Web Links

UNDP: United Nations Development Programme promotes ecological sanitation as a development tool.

Unicef: United Nations Children's Fund recognises the need for improved sanitation resources to reduce infant and child mortality rates.

WHO: World Health Organisation has resources about the health aspects of sanitation.

WSP: The WSP is an international partnership of the world's leading development agencies concerned with water and sanitation services for the poor. Its mission is to alleviate poverty by helping the poor gain sustained access to improved water and sanitation services

Sanitation Connection: Sanitation Connection is an Internet-based resource that gives you access to accurate, reliable and up-to-date information on technologies, institutions and financing of sanitation systems around the world.

FAO: The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN has resources on using ecologically sustainable farming methods.

Sida: International development co-operation is an investment in ensuring poor people a better life, in environmental conservation and peace, in democracy and equality. It should pave the way for equal relations and make itself redundant.

Paho: A branch of the WHO aimed at "improving the health of the peoples of the Americas"

Gtz: A German development organisation with resources on the further development, testing and dissemination of alternatives to conventional wastewater and sewage disposal systems is becoming more and more indispensable for both economic and ecological reasons

EcoEng: Innovative Ecological Sanitation Concept Shows Way Towards Sustainable Urban Development In Vauban, a suburb of Freiburg, Germany a new model house was built in 1999, which combines highly innovative energy, waste and sanitary concepts

Cepp: The EcoSan Centre promotes ecological sanitation (EcoSan) systems, practices and programs - we link people, programs, information, and resources.

Hausanet Article: Harvesting Human Waste for Agriculture and Energy, an Ecological Sanitation approach.

WKAB: Any sustainable solution to sanitation problems must be based on the fact that human excreta are a potential resource that could be recycled.

Laneta: The Centro de Innovación en Tecnología Alternativa, A.C. supervises the construction and maintenance of ecological dry toilets, cisterns for rainwater harvesting and wetlands for greywater treatment.

WSSCC: The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council is a leading international organisation that enhances collaboration in the water supply and sanitation sector, specifically in order to attain universal coverage of water and sanitation services for poor people around the world.

A further list of Ecological Sanitation Sites 
(there are some overlaps with the sites above)