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Microbial community composition reflects water usage and storage conditions in a city-wide study of non-sewered wastewater (fecal sludge)
Sam SB, Smith SK, Niederdorfer R, Scheidegger A, Ward BJ, Tembo JM, et al. (2025) Microbial community composition reflects water usage and storage conditions in a city-wide study of non-sewered wastewater (fecal sludge). PLOS Water 4(6): e0000386. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pwat.0000386
The Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Sanitation financial tools (SFTs) for citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS): A critical review
Camila Silva Franco, Shirish Singh, Damir Brdjanovic (2025) Sanitation financial tools (SFTs) for citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS): A critical review, Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 392, 126687, ISSN 0301-4797, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126687.
Elsevier
Integrated Functional Sanitation Value Chain: The Role of the Sanitation Economy (2022)
Following the Regenerative Sanitation Principles, this book presents a new perspective to the SVC known as the ‘integrated functional sanitation value chain’ (IFSVC) to address operational functions within sanitation systems in combination with sanitation enterprises, operators and external actors that support the growth of the sanitation economy. The underlying premise of this book is that the IFSVC represents a new perspective that would have major social, environmental and economic implications for local, national, regional and global sanitation service delivery.
IWA Publishing
Anaerobic Reactors for Sewage Treatment (2019)
This book delivers the most relevant techno-scientific developments from academia and water authorities, comprehensively addressing the main aspects of interest in design, construction, and operation of UASB reactors for sewage treatment. Special attention is given to the proper and integrated management of sludge, scum, gaseous emissions, energy recovery, and effluent quality. Available in several languages.
IWA Publishing
Sanitation for All: A Women’s Perspective (2024)
The role of women in sanitation planning and implementation is key, due to their leadership in communities and their ability to organise and guarantee the sustainability of systems. Furthermore, women’s care-giving nature at home and in their communities has led them to understand the importance of sanitation and being open to discussing it publicly; women stand ready to raise the profile of this subject, putting it on a higher level on the political agenda. This book is vital reading not just for women but all stakeholders and partners in the water industry, especially those working in the sanitation and hygiene sectors.
IWA Publishing
Activated Sludge – 100 Years and Counting (2014)
The book covers the current status of all aspects of the activated sludge process and looks forward to its further development in the future. It assembles contributions from renowned world leaders in activated sludge research, development, technology and application.
IWA Publishing
Regenerative Sanitation: A New Paradigm For Sanitation 4.0 (2019)
This book proposes Regenerative Sanitation as the next era of sanitation management and attempts to provide a foundation for the study of sanitation on the premise that sanitation is a complex and dynamic system that comprises of social-ecological, technological and resource systems.
IWA Publishing
Assessment of Treatment Plant Performance and Water Quality Data (2020)
This excellent book presents the basic principles for evaluating water quality and treatment plant performance in a clear, innovative and didactic way, using a combined approach that involves the interpretation of monitoring data associated with (i) the basic processes that take place in water bodies and in water and wastewater treatment plants and (ii) data management and statistical calculations to allow a deep interpretation of the data.
IWA Publishing
Faecal Sludge Management: Systems Approach for Implementation and Operation (2014)
This is the first book dedicated to faecal sludge management. It compiles the current state of knowledge of the rapidly evolving field of faecal sludge management, and presents an integrated approach that includes technology, management, and planning based on authors’ extensive experience in the field. The book addresses the organization of the entire faecal sludge management service chain, from the collection and transport of sludge, and the current state of knowledge of treatment options, to the final end use or disposal of treated sludge. Available in several languages.
IWA Publishing
Applications of Activated Sludge Models (2015)
The book presents a dozen of practical applications for ASM models to model development, plant optimization, extension, upgrade, retrofit and troubleshooting, using Simba and BioWin simulatiors.
IWA Publishing
Experimental Methods in Wastewater Treatment (2016)
The book assembles and integrates the innovative experimental methods developed by research groups and practitioners around the world and broadly applied in wastewater treatment research and practice. It forms an integral part of the open-access online course series, containing 7 courses, also available in this repository.
IWA Publishing
Methods for Faecal Sludge Analysis (2021)
The aim of this book is to provide a basis for standardised methods for the analysis of faecal sludge from onsite sanitation technologies, for improved communication between sanitation practitioners, and for greater confidence in the generated data. The book presents background information on types of faecal sludge, methods for sample collection, health and safety procedures for handling, case studies of experimental design, an approach for estimating faecal sludge at community to city-wide scales, modelling containment and treatment processes, recipes for simulants, and laboratory methods for faecal sludge analysis currently in use by faecal sludge laboratories.
IWA Publishing
Biological Wastewater Treatment: Examples and Exercises (2023)
This book is an extension of the 2nd edition textbook (available in this repository); the overall objective is to deepen, expand and test the knowledge of the reader through a set of worked out examples, followed up by exercises and questions with provided answers. The book perfectly supports the online course open access series, available on this website.
IWA Publishing
Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Modelling, and Design (2022)
The best-seller of IWA Publishing since 2008, the 2nd edition of the book presents 18 chapters about different aspects of biological wastewater treatment. In 2022, the book won the Best Scientific Book Prize. The book is an integrated part of the online course series which are also available in this repository. The first copy of the book was presented to HRH King of Orange. Available in several languages.
IWA Publishing