MoMo II

The aim of this sub-project is to implement participatory planning of water infrastructure for a case study of a selected ger settlement in the city Darkhan (Mongolia). In cooperation with Mongolian stakeholders, municipal water management problems are addressed and measures for improving the situation are developed. The selected measures will be implemented and tested on a pilot basis. The project will culminate with an action-plan for large-scale implementation of the measures. The conceptual basis is a planning approach described in the literature as Household-Centered Environmental Sanitation Planning (HCES).

HCES-Team LTR

HCES-Team
LTR Mingma Sherpa (HCES-Nepal) , Ganbaatar Hurelbaatar (Project office Darkhan), Dr. Katja Sigel (Environmental Research Leipzig), Prof. Dr. Jörg Londong (University of Weimar); Dr. Kh. Ariunchimeg (Interpreter), Jürgen Stäudel (University of Weimar), Ts. Enkhjargal (NGO UDRC, bathhouse), Dr. Ilke Borowski-Maaser (seeconsult GmbH), Gerel Osor (Project office Darkhan), Gisela Lamkowsky (seeconsult GmbH), Nyamtuya Batsaikhan (Project office Darkhan), missing: Lukas Ulrich (Eawag Schwitzerland)

Within the scope of the first phase of the MoMo project a detailed inventory of the water infrastructure of the city of Darkhan was performed. The existing central fresh- and wastewater systems were the focus. The situation in the ger settlements, which are not generally connected to the system and which are  occupied by approximatively 50% of Darkhan city residents, can be characterised as follows:

  • freshwater supply is supplied via freshwater kiosks and private house wells

  • no regulated wastewater disposal

  • no regulated stormwater management

  • frequent occurrence of water-related diseases (gastrointestinal infections, diarrhoea epidemics, hepatitis A, especially among children)

Despite these problems, the city of Darkhan currently cannot provide a concept for medium- to large-scale planning for water infrastructure within the ger settlements.

You can download the mongolian flyer [here] and the english flyer [here].

Link to project site.

[Here] you can read an article about the journey (from Westfälischer Anzeiger 2011/05/12).

 

This project is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

 

 

 

 

The website for the IPIT ® is here!
The IPIT ® is not just any toilet, but is an integrated Personnel innovative Toilet, which was developped for the project Momo. For more information about this sustainable sanitation system please visit the website in German,English and Mongolian.