Faecal Sludge Management

Faecal sludge management (FSM) entails all activities for the adequate storage, collection, transport, treatment, and safe end use or disposal of faecal sludge (FS) within non-sewered sanitation systems such as pit latrines and septic tanks. Faecal sludge, which is raw or partially digested slurry or semisolid, is a result of combinations of excreta and blackwater, with or without greywater. 

The principal aim of FSM is to ensure that untreated FS is deposited, contained, and removed from the community hygienically and safely, treated, and reused or disposed of safely. It is this premise that the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 draws the focus on safe human excreta management along the entire sanitation value chain (SVC).

We offer the following faecal sludge management related consulting and implementation services;

• Engineering design and construction of faecal sludge treatment plants (FSTP),
• Cesspool emptier services and supply of sewage suction trucks (vacuum trucks/desludging trucks),
• Engineering design and construction of constructed wetlands (artificial wetlands), sewage lagoons, floating reed beds, and waste stabilisation ponds for human wastes for small-town centres and institutions such as schools,
• Construction of bio digester septic tanks, which decompose waste on-site hence require no emptying,
• Construction of accessible toilets i.e. for PWDs and elderly people,
• Sanitation safety planning (SSP),
• Gulping services for pit latrines and supply of gulper equipment.