ISO 31800:2020
Faecal Sludge Treatment Unit
ISO 31800:2020, Faecal sludge treatment units – Energy independent, prefabricated, community-scale, resource recovery units – Safety and performance requirements, contains specific requirements and test methods to ensure safety, performance, and sustainability of prefabricated fecal sludge treatment units that can serve approximately 1,000 to 100,000 people.
The standard is significant as helps provide a solution to the global sanitation problem. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, worldwide, 780 million people do not have access to an improved water source. Moreover, an estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, accounting for more than 35% of the world’s population. Despite the dire stats, breakthroughs are possible: The CDC also reports that water, sanitation, and hygiene has the potential to prevent at least 9.1% of the global disease burden and 6.3% of all deaths.
ISO 31800:2020 Benefits
- performance, safety, operability, and maintainability of the treatment unit.
- protection of human health and the environment.
- safety aspects of the treatment unit’s solid, liquid, and gaseous outputs.
- treatment of noise and odour.
- more cleaner and greener environment