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Biogas - DEWATS Research on plant performance
In co-operation with Technologies for Economic Development (TED, Lesotho) and Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (Borda, Germany) the Department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries (www.sandec.ch) at...[more]
Progress at St. Angela
Tons of soil had been digged out within a few days at the St. Angela Cheshire Home. Through to the cooperation between BORDA and TCC, a local building company, and their use of an excavator, a lot of time was saved. If the...[more]
WASAZA'S first biogas-digester
An innovative project using sunflower and jatropha waste is helping to introduce biogas technology to Zambia.[more]
Biogas – DEWATS challenge for on-site sanitation in Lesotho
Lesotho is an ideal place for DEWATS application. Septic tanks with soak-away are either not allowed by authorities or do not work due to the ground texture. Regular empting of the septic tanks is expensive and the commercial...[more]
Drama and community participation
BORDA has implemented various community projects, for example, Community Based Sanitation (CBS) in developing countries using techniques that enhance sustainability due to their participatory nature. One such technique is the...[more]
Sanitation Situation in Africa
“Every hour, a hundred African children die from diarrhoea- so started the final statement of 2002 AfricaSan conference. What has changed in the intervening 5 years? The 300 million Africans who did not have access to basic...[more]
Africa challenges DEWATS-CBS
DEWATS-CBS has been developed and getting mainstreamed by BORDA network in Asia. Now are the tasks to introduce DEWATS-CBS to Africa, to adapt technology and social approaches and to build-up a efficient implementation...[more]
Sanitation News from WASAZA - BORDA Cooperation in Zambia
City Selection, Community Selection, Community Action Plan… There were many ladders to climb and hurdles to take for the 23 participants of a workshop, aiming to make a change in sanitation.[more]