Ecosan Sessions at the 3rd World Water Forum, Kyoto March 17, 20 and 21, 2003

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17 March at 08:45 - 11:30  Venue: Suehiro Room, Kyoto Takaragaike Prince Hotel

Ecological Sanitation - Progress Being Made Around the World: What is Ecosan and What is Being Done Generally?

Organised by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Japan Toilet Association (JTA) and the City of Kyoto

 

Welcome Speech

  • Yorikane Masumoto, Mayor of Kyoto

Chair

  • The Sida Global Ecosan Programme, Bengt Johansson, Head, Water Division, Department for Natural    Resources and the Environment Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, (Sida), Sweden

Keynotes

  • Ecosan: What Kind of Advocacy is Needed? Honourable Maria Mutagamba, Uganda Minister of Water, Land and Environment

  • The Science and Technology Behind Ecosan, Saburo Matsui, Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Panel    

  • What is Ecosan in Practise and What Role Can it Play in Meeting the Millennium Development Goals and the Johannesburg Committments? Arno Rosemarin, Communications Director, SEI, and Manager, EcoSanRes Programme, Sweden

  • The GTZ Global Ecosan Programme, Christine Werner, Team Leader, Ecosan-project, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Germany

  • UNICEF Presentation, Vanessa Tobin, Chief, Water, Environment and Sanitation Section, UNICEF HQ, USA 

  • Ecological Sanitation for Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication - UNDP's Approach, Ingvar Andersson, Senior Water Policy Advisor, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP HQ, USA

  • WSP's Contribution to the Sanitation Challenge,  Walter Stottmann, Manager, Water and Sanitation Programme, Washington, D.C., US

Panel Discussion  What Can Ecosan Do to Help Reach the Millennium Development Goal and the Johannesburg Commitment on Sanitation?

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21 March at 12:30 - 15:15  Venue: Room J, International Conference Hall, 2nd floor

Ecological Sanitation - Closing the Nutrient Loop Through Ecosan in Rural and Urban Areas

Organised by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Japan Toilet Association (JTA) and the City of Kyoto

Chair                   

  • Saburo Matsui, Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Keynote               

  • Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities,  Prof. Lena Sommestad, Swedish Minister of the Environment

Panel                  

  • Experiments Using Urine and Humus Derived from Ecological Toilets as a Source of Nutrients in Growing Crops, Peter Morgan,  Director,  Aquamor PVT. Ltd., Harare,  Zimbabwe

  • EcoSan-related Norms in Capacity Building, Jan-Olof Drangert,  Ass. Prof. Linkoping University, Sweden

  • Projects on Ecological Sanitation in Middle Europe, Ralf Otterpohl, Director, Institute of Municipal and Industrial Wastewater Management, Technical University Hamburg (TUHH), Germany

  • Bringing Ecosan to South Asia, Paul Calvert, Director, EcoSolutions, Whitby, UK

  • Eco-stations and Eco-towns: New Policies in the Making, Mayling Simpson-Hebert, Medical/Environmental Anthropologist, The Steamboat Springs Institute, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, USA

  • Setting up Ecosan in Peri-urban Kampala, Maimuna Nalubega (In-charge, Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Section, Civil Engineering Department, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)

Panel Discussion The Positive Implications of Closing the Loop on Nutrients for Communities, Regions and Countries

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IWA International Water Association   

20 March at 08:45 - 11:30 Venue: Room E, International Conference Hall

Science, Technology and Management Panel

Affordable & Ecologically Sound Community Sanitation - New Solutions to Old Problems

Convener and Co-convenor: Ralf Otterpohl (Chair of IWA specialist group "Sustainable Sanitation") and Arno Rosemarin (Manager, EcoSanRes Programme, SEI)

Problems in Sanitation Around the World      

  • Ralf Otterpohl, Director, Institute of Wastewater Management, TUHH Technical University Hamburg.

  • New Solutions 1:  Ron Sawyer, Director, Sarar Transformacion SC, Mexico.

  • New Solutions 2: Lin Jiang, Director, Science and Education Dept, Jiu San Society, Guangxi, China.

  • New Solutions 3: Ned Breslin, Country Representative, WaterAid, Mozambique. WaterAid's growing experience with ecosan in Southern Africa

 

Cases Around the World in Brief

  • Christine Werner, Project Team Leader, EcoSan, GTZ German Technology Co-Operation, Germany.

 

Systematic Representation of the Ecological Sanitation Toolbox

  • Ralf Otterpohl, Director, Institute of Wastewater Management, TUHH Technical University Hamburg

 

Panel Discussion:  Un- and underserved people: Where Can Ecological Sanitation Help Solve Severe Problems Around the World? Facilitator: Ralf Otterpohl

  • Steve Halls, Director, UNEP IETC

  • Maimuna Nalubega, In-charge, Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Section, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  • Arno Rosemarin, Communications Director, SEI, and Manager, EcoSanRes Programme

  • Uno Winblad, Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Japan