The SmartSAN Grand Challenge aims to fund revolutionary sanitation ideas and concepts that, if having good potential, will be supported and accelerated across the innovation value chain to facilitate disruption of the current binary sanitation engineering paradigm. SmartSAN is focussed on the development of household or communal / residential sanitation systems. The perfect solution would be a toilet system that has a high user acceptance and is aspirational, offers user convenience, does not require sewers for functioning, and eliminates pathogens, sludge production and the need for constant water and energy supply while generation products and services of economic value. For Phase 1 of SMARTSAN, the WRC is seeking innovative and revolutionary ideas for treating human faecal waste in which proof-of-concept can be determined. This links below provide the details of the strategy and performance and design criteria specified to match the WRC’s vision of new sanitation.
Due Date: 18 Jan 2021 for submission of EOI
