Collecting water: Shashemene, Ethiopia, November 2015
Hilary Bambrick, Stefano Moncada
QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology)
Urban Farm DB summary
A photo-documentation report on a water point installed in 2012 as part of a biogas development initiative in an informal urban community of 200 households in Shashemene, Ethiopia. The facility comprises four latrines, an inlet for animal waste, a fermentation chamber, and a communal kitchen with four stoves; the fermented slurry by-product is used as fertiliser for the community garden. The report states that the system improved management of human and animal waste, reducing gastroenteric disease; provided cleaner cooking fuel than wood, dung, or charcoal, reducing indoor air pollution and respiratory disease risk; lowered household fuel costs; and increased food production and income through the fertiliser it generates.