Kisumu’s sanitation landscape consists of dense low-income settlements and peri-urban areas where accessibility, settlement density, high water table and transport distance to treatment facilities strongly influence pit emptying operations. The emerging message…
Update: December 2025 INTRODUCTIONThe Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) Action Research Project is a three-year programme (November 2023 – October 2026) designed to understand how faecal sludge emptying and transport services can…
Technological innovations for pit latrine emptying are transforming the sanitation sector—reducing the time required and increasing efficiency by approximately 18.4% compared to manual methods. Over the past six months, OPERO-Services, in collaboration with…
The FSM Action Research Project is taking place in four African cities — Kisumu, Kampala, Kigali, and Lusaka — with a shared goal: to make faecal sludge emptying safer, more…
Sanitation service providers face unique challenges when emptying pit latrines, particularly when non-biodegradable trash and thick sludge come into play. Unfortunately, due to a lack of proper waste disposal systems,…
The majority of the world’s population uses onsite sanitation systems like pit latrines and septic tanks. These usually require emptying when full. Some of the households using these systems lack…
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