Better Sanitation: Turning Human Waste Into Clean Energy

Lucy Stevens, Urban Services Expert, Practical Action

26-Nov-15 15:00

Better Sanitation: Turning Human Waste Into Clean Energy

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It was World Toilet Day on the 19th of November, and we speak to Lucy Stevens, the Urban Services Expert at the UK-based NGO Practical Action, about the organisation's use of a variety of different technologies, as appropriate to each community, to help improve sanitation and health around the world.

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Tags: practical action, world toilet day, sanitation, health, hygiene, developing countries, urban poverty, rural, toilets, clean energy

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