NEWS
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Community Plumbing Challenge
– the data
The international Community Plumbing Challenge aims to contribute to
improvements to public health in regions where communities are still
threatened by a lack of basic sanitation and safe drinking water systems.
Community Plumbing Challenge 2016 combined
multidisciplinary teams with a cross-section of
expertise, expanding on the skills pathway and
career options for plumbing apprentices and
professionals in South Africa and around the world.
Eight new toilet upgrades
Data logging equipment was installed in the new
upgraded toilet units for the purposes of mapping
people and water usage, which can be compared with
the usage data from non-upgraded toilets recorded
during the 2014 sanitation studio.
Eight defunct communal toilets were plucked from the
ground in Diepsloot Extension 1 (and replaced with new
and improved toilets as upgraded by the WASSUP team),
where four international student teams (representing
Australia, India, United States, and South Africa) will now
collaborate to develop the most effective and sustainable
new upgrade solutions.
The toilet units that were upgraded during CPC2016.
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Health and the Diepsloot Sanitation Project
www.plumbingafrica.co.za
July 2017 Volume 23 I Number 5