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Based on its recent analysis of the dry sanitation
industry, Frost & Sullivan recognised Enviro Loo with
the 2017 Southern African Company of the Year Award.
The company has created a sustainable sanitation
solution with no reliance on stretched water resources
and eliminating pollution on the surrounding landscape
through its zero-discharge system. One Enviro Loo can
save between 300,000 to 650, 000 litres of water annually.
“There is an ongoing sanitation crisis in the Southern
African region, with groundwater contamination causing
serious health fatalities on a daily basis. Furthermore,
potable water is still often used for sanitation purposes,
exacerbating already severe water shortages,” said
Laura Caetano, research analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
“Enviro Loo’s dry sanitation toilet system is a waterless,
zero-discharge system that addresses these problems
and can be deployed in rural and less-developed
areas where such large-scale sanitation solutions are
desperately required.”
The containerized Enviro Loo toilet functions through
an evaporation and dehydration process, and requires
no pipes, drainage or flushing system.
This provides communities with access to dignified,
safe and effective sanitation. More than that, the
company’s business model engages the community by
furthering job creation through employing and training
selected community members to service and maintain
the units. These community members are supplied with
mobile phones and the apparatus required to maintain
locally installed systems.
The company has developed the Loo Solve app
which provides a maintenance schedule, buyer
information, GPS location of each system, and a live
asset management tracking tool to access information
about the installed systems at any time. Workers are
required to take photos of each system and complete
a maintenance checklist while at each location. As
part of its bottom-up approach, Enviro Loo uses a social
facilitation team to achieve community buy-in into the
technology.
“Enviro Loo has developed a visionary product that
highlights a potential future where water-borne sewage
processing systems—and all their incumbent issues—are
no longer the norm. The company now has over 150,000
units installed in 52 countries, and has allowed more than
2 million people to contribute to the socioeconomic
development of their communities,” Caetano said.
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents a Company of
the Year award to the organisation that demonstrates
excellence in terms of growth strategy and
implementation in its field. The award recognizes a high
degree of innovation with products and technologies,
and the resulting leadership in terms of customer value
and market penetration. AW
8 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2018 Asian Water