Background

Nearly 61% of the global population (4.5 billion people) lack safely managed sanitation services (use of a toilet or latrine that leads to treatment or safe disposal of excreta). In a country like India only 40% of urban households are connected to sewerage network, and most of the STPs struggle to meet the discharge standards. Clearly the sewerage systems are failing to keep up with the excreta challenge. There is plethora of innovative technologies, a combination of which can be a good substitute to the conventional network-based solutions. MOUNT(Menu On Un-Networked Technologies) is an attempt to bring all these technologies at one place.It is an initiative to create a platform where all users feel enabled by reading about already implemented technologies. This initiative is developed under the project titled ‘Capacity Building of urban local bodies on water and waste in Ganga basin cities’ funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

About MOUNT

MOUNT is an aggregator platform for various sustainable technologies, encouraging and disseminating knowledge and good practices for wastewater management. The preference for sustainable technologies is mainly due to CSE’s continuous motivation towards usage of sustainable and environmentally harmonious technologies. The interventions presented are preferred to be affordable as well, hence for all technologies an evidence based route has been opted before inclusion in the menu.

How to use MOUNT

Depending on your need you can search on MOUNT on the basis of technology, sub-technology or case study. In case you are confused between the meanings of the terms use the glossary, in case you are not, you can move on to search by technology, search by sub-technology, search by case study. If you have any doubts you can write to us @_. If you would like to contribute to the platform (only in terms of knowledge) feel free to do so by sending us your case study in the template for case study or your sub-technology in the template for sub-technology.

Target audience

The target audience for this menu comprises anyone who is remotely interested and/or aware of wastewater and faecal sludge, or is perhaps a concerned citizen trying to understand the appropriate technology for his/her town, residential complex, institute et al.

Pupil working in professions/related professions such as civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planners, architects, town planning officers, engineers, others involved in city sanitation plans and developing other local planning provisions/design standards for the upkeep of sanitation facilities.