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Microalgae as a tool for managers to monitor sewage pollution and the results that these abundances may threaten corals but are limited by areas with high currents or more active waves. This can inform managers about where to focus efforts.

need for sewage management in florida to protect reefs. this is a good study of how sewage impacts coastal communities in "developed" contexts and may motivate investment in both conservation strategies and improved treatment technology

Decision support tool for rapidly estimating the resource recovery potential from organic waste streams including sewage sludge, faecal sludge, and other organic solid waste.

Wastewater: an untapped resource; executive summary

Partnership of public and private entities supporting alignment, coordination, and expansion of business efforts to improve sanitation across supply chains. The UN’s “Call to Action on Sanitation” was the impetus for this partnership, which includes resources, advocacy, solutions, and monitoring by governments and an engaged public. Guidance and reporting on preparation, community engagement, actions toward solutions, and monitoring and feedback searchable by developer, region, resource type, scope, and sector.

Women and girls continue to face a broad set of gender inequities and are influenced by discriminatory social norms that negatively affect their health, empowerment, and well-being.

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The survey included responses from 170 managers, representing organizations from 50 countries and territories, and found that respondents generally agreed on the two major threats: overfishing and coastal development. However, resource allocation did not match this consensus on major threats.

evidence of CECs is estuarine biota! support for damage caused by sewage pollution AND threat to health of fish and people who eat fish!

Seagrasses as indications of pollution and the importance of P pollution as well as N pollution in particularly low-flux bay-type contexts

N pollution from sewage that threaten coastal marine ecosystems including the vulnerable Acropora coral. Further evidence of the need for improved nutrient removal from sewage to protect corals

Wastewater reuse (WWR) technology has improved greatly in recent decades and may be an important solution to global water challenges. Nevertheless, several psychological and social barriers to widespread adoption still exist. Negative emotional reactions to WWR, known as the “yuck factor,” have been identified as central to public acceptance.

Model for RV emissions which can show contamination events and lead to improved management

Global map showing 104 of 112 distinct coral reef geographies listed in the World Atlas of Coral Reefs (including 80 countries, 6 states, and 26 territories) with documented coastal sewage pollution problems.

Membership network that supports collaborative efforts to expand WASH services. Publically accessible news, articles, and videos.

The studies comprise quantitative and qualitative data, collected from girls in school, teachers and school management, parents, shopkeepers and other key stakeholders.

This review presents evidence that sewage discharge occurs in waters surrounding at least 104 of 112 reef geographies. Studies often refer to sewage as a single stressor. However, we show that it is more accurately characterized as a multiple stressor.

Consulting for onsite water reuse solutions for the built environment.

Learn more about how you can help protect our waters from pollution in this fun, animated video.

It explores the co-benefits of source water protection, including climate change mitigation and adaptation, human health and well-being and biodiversity across 4,000 cities

WASH focus particularly on pathogens. Network and project database are global and connect to multiple SDGs.

The Compendium presents a huge range of information on sanitation systems and technologies in one volume. By ordering and structuring tried and tested technologies into once concise document, the reader is provided with a useful planning tool for making more informed decisions.

Provide tools that allow access to pathogen data on viruses, protozoa and bacteria to support sanitation safety planning. Knowledge resource, including a decision-support framework for treatment, for risk and intervention measurements related to sanitation solutions. Reviews of literature, new pathogens, and technological efficacy including intro to the importance of sanitation, in particular pathogens, to environmental and human health, as well as gender. The network and database are global and connect to multiple SDGs. The Water Pathogen Knowledge to Practices (Water-K2P) projects is creating pathogen flow and mapping tools as well as a database of case studies.

Saving firewood, money and the environment - developing countries are taking the lead in turning their sanitation problems into an asset.

Community-scale urine recycling project and implementation support network.

A general audience factsheet that describes soil processes that remove bacteria and protozoa from onsite sewage treatment systems

A general audience factsheet on soil processes that remove viruses from onsite wastewater systems

To enable widespread use of safely managed, sustainable sanitation services that contribute to positive health, economic, and gender equality outcomes for the world’s poorest people.

Database of water quality monitoring reports of fecal indicator bacteria levels collected through the Surfrider Foundation's volunteer program, Blue Water Task Force.

Business and knowledge sharing platform for over 110,000 global water professionals providing free resources and knowledge sharing to foster productive discussion and information dissemination between members.

List of organizations and technologies that have created breakthrough processing components and technologies for the reinvented/non-sewered toilets.

A multi-sector and multi-actor approach accounting for water supply, sanitation, solid waste management and storm drainage in urban areas and emphasizing the participation of all stakeholders from an early stage in the planning process.

Collection of free images focusing on the ocean and marine wildlife.

In 2002, we identified the faecal enterobacterium, Serratia marcescens, as an etiological agent for white pox. During outbreaks in 2003 a unique strain of S. marcescens was identified in both human sewage and white pox lesions.

EPA's Decentralized Wastewater Management Memorandum of Understand (MOU) Partnership sponsors periodic webinars to discuss issues of interest to the decentralized community. Below are presentations, transcripts, and speaker lists from each of the webinars.

Online network for organizations, information, projects, partners, events, publications, discussion forums to facilitate innovation, policy, and coalition building within the sanitation sector. 360 organizations searchable by type and region with information about mission, location, activities, and relevant literature. Hosts a knowledge hub that includes 510 project database.

There is compelling evidence that provision of piped water and sanitation can substantially reduce child mortality. However, in dispersed rural settlements, providing complete piped water and sanitation infrastructure to households is expensive.

On average, countries with priority areas received greater conservation investment; global prioritization systems, however, explained between only 2 and 32% of the US$1.5 billion spent in 2002, depending on whether the United States was removed from analyses and whether conservation spending was adjusted by the per capita gross domestic product within each country.

Global multi-stakeholder partnership (governments, donors, private sector, UN agencies, research and learning institutions, philanthropies, civil society organizations, and other development partners) working at the national level to coordinate action, improve accountability, and use resources effectively with emphasis on government-led multi-stakeholder decision-making.

We studied the prevalence of black-band disease (BBD) and white plague type II (WP) in two sites (Frederiksted and Butler Bay) within a St. Croix coral community that varied in relative exposure to sewage outflow.

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OBIS is a global open-access data and information clearing-house on marine biodiversity for science, conservation and sustainable development.

Consortium of companies. Provides a dataset of among the most important constructed wetland treatment plants realised worldwide.

Network with links to wetland resources. Their dataset contains more than 900 constructed wetland treatment plants, collecting metadata such as location, flow path, wastewater type, as well as technical information such as person equivalent and wastewater flow treated, and surface area

Case studies on OCWD water reuse for many purposes, including industrial, irrigation and drinking.

A NOAA Data Search Platform. Geophysical, oceans, coastal, weather and climate data discovery all in one place. The OneStop Project is designed to improve NOAA's data discovery and access framework.

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Cross-sectoral, global, collaborative network for collective action on water resource decision making and host of the World Water Forum. Journal articles, books, official documents, and forum documents organized into policy, crisis, and WASH topics. Represents thousands of people from over 400 organizations in more than 60 countries spanning five continents.

A dataset of wetlands worldwide that have been designated as internationally relevant.

Our Shared Seas collects this data and packages it in ways that support ocean conservation policy, practice, and philanthropy. Our purpose is to move beyond documenting challenges facing the ocean and to advance dialogue and decision-making around evidence-based solutions for the ocean.

PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet is a partnership initiative to document and promote examples of inspiring, replicable solutions across a range of conservation and sustainable development topics, enabling cross-sectoral learning and inspiration.

In this study we monitored 1,4-dioxane in six septic tank effluents (STE) and receiving onsite-wastewater treatment systems installed at residences on Long Island (LI), NY, for a period of 15 months.