A landmark 2023 study, Does “Low Cost” Urban Sanitation Exist? Lessons from a Global Data Set, which looks at real costs of sanitation systems, re-evaluates the notion of low-cost sanitation, concluding that thinking of sanitation systems as expensive or low-cost is not meaningful.
Pathways to a healthy net-zero future by The Lancet Pathfinder Commission identifies container-based sanitation (CBS) as key solution for delivering climate action and health co-benefits.
USAID’s report, Managing the climate impact of human waste, which examines existing knowledge about methane emissions and abatement approaches for urban sanitation in low- and middle-income countries, proposes immediate investment in CBS for its high methane abatement potential.
We are very pleased to share the publication of new guidelines and best practices for container-based sanitation (CBS), developed to support service improvements in Cape Town, to be adopted and adapted both by Cape Town as well as more widely within South Africa.
Two new organisations based in Bolivia and the United States join the alliance.
We are happy to announce our refreshed CBSA strategy for 2024 to 2027!
With growing recognition of the significant relationship between sanitation and methane emissions, sanitation partners are calling for the scaling of existing solutions such as CBS – an approach that not only offers diverse avenues for methane mitigation but also stands Read more…
Ahead of the Global Methane Forum, the Climate Resilient Sanitation Coalition and the Water Initiative for Net Zero draw attention to the lack of sanitation in climate discussions, highlighting key barriers for action, and the measures that should be taken to address them.
SOIL has announced its groundbreaking partnership with IDB Lab’s Outcomes for Change Fund (OCF) in Haiti – the first large-scale Outcomes Fund to be implemented in a fragile country context and small island developing state.
Thanks to the collective efforts of WASH partners, the importance of climate-resilient sanitation has been recognised in high-level efforts to address the climate crisis, with an explicit mention in the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) water thematic target.