DESIGNING A FLOATING TOILET THAT PROMOTES SANITATION AND HEALTH FOR PEOPLE OF LAKE CHILWA BASIN
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In a bid to reduce cholera epidemic in the Lake Chilwa basin, SHARE calls for final year undergraduates, graduates and postgraduate students to form teams and develop appropriate floating toilets prototypes for consideration in the challenge. Members should form multidisciplinary teams comprising at least 3 different skills including engineering, environmental health and social sciences. Teams should have a maximum of five people and minimum of three.
The teams should have the following expertise in order to produce a sound floating toilet design:
a) Environmental HealthThe teams should have the following expertise in order to produce a sound floating toilet design:
b) Civil engineering
c) Public Health
d) Architecture
e) Water Resources Management
f) Social Sciences
g) Environmental Management
h) and any relevant field.
The winning team will be required to be available for at least 6 months to be able to successfully carry out the field testing and follow-up studies. Each team will be required to write a literature review, design a new prototype and test it if successful. Four teams will be shortlisted for presentation of their prototype and two teams will be chosen to test their prototype in the field.
Deadline:
Each team will be required to register by sending a list of team members and their team leader to temsiska@gmail.com and skumwenda@poly.ac.mw by 30th October, 2017. Those registered in the competition will be expected to submit their final prototypes by 30th November, 2017. For more information, visit WASHTED website at www.washted.mw
Floating Toilet Challenge (Word Document)
Floating Toilet Challenge (Word Document)
