eThekwini Water and Sanitation Programme - Impumelelo Social Innovations Centre Award-Winner

The e'Thekwini Municipality's Water and Sanitation Programme, started in 2003, provided 75 000 households with their daily 200 litre water supply through a ground tank filled from a reticulated water system and a ventilated, improved urine diversion toilet for those homes beyond the waterborne sewerage line. People who previously used unsanitary, shared pit latrines or the open veld, and collected contaminated water from polluted rivers far away, now have potable running water in their own yard with their own hygienic toilet. This project won a Gold Impumelelo Innovations Award in 2004.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Water and Sanitation; Durban