Knowledge exchange symposium
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The theme for this year`s World Toilet day celebrations was “Where does our poo go?”. Malawi`s World Toilet Day celebrations were kick started by a one-day knowledge exchange symposium for sanitation and hygiene promotion which was organized by The Center for Water, Sanitation Health & Appropriate Technological Development (WASHTED) at the University of Malawi – The Polytechnic, in partnership with the Malawi Government and Water Environmental Sanitation Network (WESNET), an umbrella body for all WASH NGOs in Malawi. The experts in WASH spent their time looking at the route that poo takes from containment to use/disposal.
Experts in each stage of the sanitation service chain, (Containment, Collection, Transportation, Treatment, and Reuse/Disposal) made brief presentations and shared their experiences in sanitation. The word that echoed all through the symposium “resource”: in reference to the fact that there is money to made in the sanitation business. The knowledge exchange was further aided by pavilions which were mounted by different organizations at the event.
