SaniHub views the sanitation market as a value chain where value can be added at each stage. It will therefore develop technologies, systems and services which accomplish this at each section of the chain, as shown in the picture at the top of this website.
All technologies, ideas and knowledge on this website have been delineated with regard the the Sanitation Value Chain, as you can see from the menu bar. The links in this chain are:
- Capture – any type of latrine or tank which is used to capture and store faecal sludge;
- Emptying – any type of device used to empty storage devices;
- Transport – physically moving the sludge from the storage device to the treatment plant;
- Treatment – treating sludge so that it is safe to disposed of or, ideally, reused;
- Reuse – regaining value from the sludge by making it’s nutritional or calorific content available for agriculture, energy, etc.
The Sanitation Value Chain provides a useful method to divide different technologies in to their useful functions and identify the type of partners that may be required. For instance a technology in the ‘capture and storage’ stage will require partners with construction expertise; whereas a technology in the ‘treatment’ phase will require partners with bio-chemical processing expertise.
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