Professor  of  Civil  and  Environmental
Engineering  at  the  University  of  South  Florida
While  several  research  laboratories  have  embraced   water  supply  and  drinking  water  treatment  in  the   developing  world  as  an  important  component  of  their   research  porPolio,  the  wastewater  field  has  not  yet   been  elevated  to  the  importance  that  it  deserves.  The
WHO/UNICEF  Joint  Monitoring  Programme  for  Water
Supply  and  SanitaWon’s  latest  report  confirms  that   progress  on  providing  improved  sanitaWon  will  not  meet   the  Millennium  Development  Goal  (MDG)  even  as  the   world  is  on  track  to  meet  the  drinking-­‐water  target  by
2015.    Billions  of  people  sWll  lack  access  to  improved   sanitaWon,  including  over  one  billion  who  pracWce  open   defecaWon.
This  talk  will  provide  a  brief  overview  of  the  current  sanitaWon  crisis,  and  then   provide  results  of  recent  research  that  supports  the  Millennium  Development  Goal
(MDG)  target  related  to  provision  of  improved  sanitaWon  including  understanding   pathogen  destrucWon  in  compost  latrines  and  determining  the  water  and  nutrient   reuse  potenWal  of  community  managed  wastewater  treatment  systems.
12:00-­‐1:00  FREE  EVENT  in  Burke  Auditorium,  Kroon  Hall
Lunch  will  be  provided  –  first  come,  first  served