Funding

• The project is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  
• The business model development is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Resources

Photos & posters

• To download photos and posters of the Blue Diversion Toilet please follow this link

Videos

• Overview of the Blue Diverision sanitation system (Eawag and EOOS, 2014)
• Blue Diversion business model (Eawag and EOOS, 2014)
• Nitrogen emissions: environmental and health hazards (Eawag, Blue Diversion and Vuna 2014)
• Urine fertilizer production at Eawag (Eawag, Blue Diversion and Vuna, 2014)
• The Blue Diversion Toilet at the Reinvent the Toilet Fair in Delhi (SuSanA, 2014)
• The diversion Toilet (Eawag and EOOS, 2012)
• No place to go (ETH, Makerere University and Eawag)
• Reinvent the Toilet Fair (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2012)

Press & TV

• Die Neuerfindung der Toilette (Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 1, 2016)
• Saubere Toiletten für Elendsviertel (Horizonte Nr. 106, September 2015 - SNF)
• Des toilettes vraiment propres (24heures, June 21-22, 2015)
• Blue Diversion Toilet aims to improve sanitation with built-in filtration system (Dezeen, April 6, 2015)
• The Blue Toilet at the Designs of the Year 2015 on BBC online (March 26, 2015)
• Wunder-Klo soll aus Urin Phosphor machen (SWR Landesschau, Episode January 18, 2015)
• Erde an Zukunft - Toiletten in der Zukunft (KiKA, Episode January 3, 2005)
• Die Toilette der Zukunft (Frankfurter Allgemeine, November 4, 2014)
• Self-sustaining toliets for Indian slums (Deccan Herald, November 3, 2014)
• Auf den Geschmack gekommen (SonntagsZeitung, September 7, 2014)
• High hopes for Blue Diversion toilet (Technologist.eu, July 24, 2014)
  
• Toilets for the environment: Scientists take Gates Foundation challenge (The Japan Times, March 23, 2014)

• TV interview Bill Gates (CBS News, 60 minutes, May 12, 2013)

• Their Mission: To Build a Better Toilet (The New York Times, August 13, 2011)

Publications

• A Collection of Contemporary Toilet Designs. EOOS and WEDC, Loughborough, UK, 2014
  
• A Slum Toilet. Gründl, H. , article in the magazine Slum Lab: Empower Shack, ETH Zürich / Architecture
  
• Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management. Larsen, T.A., Udert, K. M. and Lienert, J. (ed.). Published February 2013. 
  
• Diversion for safe sanitation: a new approach to sanitation in informal settlements. Larsen et al., paper for the Second International Sludge Management Conference in Durban, South Africa, October 2012
  
• Sanitation Innovation for Urban Slums: the Blue Diversion Toilet. Lüthi, C. and Larsen, T.A., paper for the 3rd International Conference on Technologies for Development, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 2014

Interesting websites

• Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management Toolbox, integrative tool for capacity development
• Sanitation Updates, News, Opinions and Resources for Sanitation for All
  
• IWA Water Wiki, Information Resource & Hub for the Global Water Community

 

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