How informal sector invention is providing solutions for sanitation in Bangalore. Sanitation without pipelines reusing nutrients and growing crops are all part of this solution.

1. Honey suckers Sanitation without pipes

4. Vacum sucking a pit latrine

5. the honey-sucker can reach 250 feet

6. It has eliminated manual scavenging

7. There are 300 of them in Bangalore City

8. The trucks are indigenously designed

9. Nutrient value is recovered

10. A protocol for use is necessary

11. As is an institutional and legal framework which includes this service

12. Over 100,000 houses are estimated to be currently served

13. Eco-san at play

14. Farmers have understood the nutrient value

15. ..and are even composting it and re-selling it

16. Completely in the informal private sector

17. But how to avoid soil and groundwater pollution ?

18. Nutrient analysis in progress

19. Great N:P:K VALUE WITH MICRO-NUTRIENTS

20. More science is required

21. Concrete rings being made to line pits of the latrine

22. This too is in the informal sector

23. Else sewage ends up in rivers

24. Polluting water

25. Foam rivers …

28. The honey-sucker solution ?