Nakuru school UDDTs - ROSA poject - tour study - ecosan workshop

Objective:

To familiarise the Kenyan Stakeholders with the local conditions in order to provide the proper context for the organisational development of “ESF Kenya”.

Sites Visited:

•Urine-Diverting Dehydrating Toilets (UDDTs) at the household and school levels, •Decentralized wastewater management plants comprising of biogas digesters
•Bio-Latrine-Centres installed for public places such as markets, bus parks, and boat landings and informal settlements.

Project is operated and maintained by Ugunja municipal body on trial run to see the cost effectiveness of the project with reference to O and M of the project.

Small-scale constructed wetland planted for treatment of greywater, M.Wafler, and P. Thakur 2010.

Girls’ and boys’ UDDTs at Crater View Secondary School, Nakuru, M.Wafler, and P. Thakur 2010.


Stagnant urine in urine-diversion squatting pan due to blockage of urine pipe, M.Wafler, and P. Thakur 2010.

Drying shed for processing faecal matter from UDDTs, M.Wafler, and P. Thakur 2010.

Wetland for Grey water treatment, M.Wafler, and P. Thakur 2010.

Urinal for boys, M.Wafler, and P. Thakur 2010.

Urinal for girls, M.Wafler, and P. Thakur 2010.

Observations / comments made:

•Grey water management system was ok.
•Toilet block was not well maintained
•No internal lock for door at girls toilet block
•Urine collection tank which was underground was fill and no further storage system
•Majority of the wholes in urine pan was blocked
• Project is over so lack of resources for post implementation support.
•The nice part is further scale up of this project in this area so Need of further capacity building at the project to make it sustainable.