Planning & Design of Sanitation Systems and Technologies

Do you want to learn how to plan affordable and context-specific sanitation solutions? Be up-to-date on the newest developments in urban sanitation planning and programming? Get to know best practice examples of urban sanitation systems in low- and middle-income countries? If yes, this course is for you! This course provides you with an introduction to integrated sanitation planning, both on a citywide scale and for specific contexts such as informal settlements. You will become familiar with different sanitation planning frameworks as well as different systems and technologies relevant along the sanitation value chain. You will learn why systems’ thinking is crucial for urban environmental sanitation, and how to apply key terminology and important concepts. This course is one of four in the series “Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development". www.eawag.ch/mooc

• Plan affordable, context-specific sanitation solutions
• Identify best practice examples of urban sanitation systems
• Understand the role of systems thinking in urban sanitation
• Apply key sanitation terminology and concepts

• Basic familiarity with sanitation concepts and terminology
• Willingness to engage in applied exercises or case studies