Sanitation profile
Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and faeces. Sanitation is high on the global agenda: universal access to clean water and sanitation is one of goals that make up the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Study areas
- Sanitary engineering
The aim of the sanitation profile, which is offered in the Water and Health track, is to educate professionals to have the knowledge and capacity to develop, plan, implement and evaluate sanitation provision based on the comprehension of the broader technological, socio-economic and public health issues and their relevance and interrelationships within the sanitation service chain.
In the sanitation profile you will be critically analyzing and evaluating options and alternatives for safe and sustainable sanitation solutions.
Therefore, the topics range from the relationship between sanitation practices and public health, sanitation systems and services, treatment processes and technologies, governance structures and stakeholder interactions, and financing sanitation interventions and valorization of end products.
About the profile
Keywords
Recovery and reuse; Humanitarian WASH; Non-sewered sanitation; Faecal sludge management
Interested?
This is one of five disciplinary profiles you can pair with a thematic track in the MSc Programme in Water and Sustainable Development. Want to know more about this programme and how you can shape it to your interests?