Honey-suckers - Sanitation solutions in Bangalore

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How informal sector invention is providing solutions for sanitation in Bangalore. Sanitation without pipelines reusing nutrients and growing crops are all part of this solution.

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HONEY SUCKERSSanitation without pipes

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Vacum sucking a pit latrine

the honey-sucker can reach 250 feet

It has eliminated manual scavenging

There are 300 of them in Bangalore City

The trucks are indigenously designed

Nutrient value is recovered

A protocol for use is necessary

As is an institutional and legal framework which includes this service

Over 100,000 houses are estimated to be currently served

Eco-san at play

Farmers have understood the nutrient value

..and are even composting it and re-selling it

Completely in the informal private sector

But how to avoid soil and groundwater pollution ?

Nutrient analysis in progress

Great N:P:K VALUE WITH MICRO-NUTRIENTS

More science is required

Concrete rings being made to line pits of the latrine

This too is in the informal sector

Else sewage ends up in rivers

Polluting water

Foam rivers …

The honey-sucker solution ?

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