December 16, 2020

Wednesday December 16, 2020

Water Operator Continuing Education
Household Alternatives for Water and Sanitation in Remote and Rural Areas
On-line via ZOOM
9:00 am - 11:00 am (Chamorro Standard Time GMT + 10)

AGENDA

Welcome, Introduction and About Continuing Education - Derek Chambers

Household Alternatives for Water and Sanitation in Remote and Rural Areas - Kaity Mattos, PHD Candidate, Anchorage, Alaska

Instructors' Bios

Kaity Mattos

Presentations

Click on the links below to download pdfs of the Power Point Presentations from this class:

Future home of a copy of the videos from this session.

Questions/comments typed into the chat box during this class:

Person : Comment. Response

Heidi Yelin to Training MIWOA(Privately) : will the slides from presentation be available?
Hopefully we will have a pdf of the presentation up soon, and maybe even a copy of the video as well.

From Rich Salas : Very interesting talk Kaity. Just a quick question for you or Derek regarding compostable toilets. In your professional opinions are they cost prohibitive compared to the other alternatives you covered? Or does it really just fall on maintenance?
[summarizing from the discussion that followed this question, I think we pointed out that composable toilets are not cost prohibitive, but they are very maintenance intensive. You really need someone who is really into compostable toilets to nurture them along and keep them functioning]

From Bernard Keremius : Alaska regulators stopped authorizing greywater discharge a number years ago, so it's good there has been progress in modular systems. Centralized systeems are energy intensive, high maintenance and expensive for communities to maintain in Alaska

From LSG SKy Chefs Roginia H. Banacia : Any local government regulations to ensure that individual households are able dispose these honey buckets where they should be disposed off?

From Bernard Keremius : Question: How are installation of the modular sytems funded? Grant programs? Private?

Bernard Keremius : Is ANTHC actively installing these modular systems currently?

Attendance and Certificates

The following is a list of attendees for this training. Those on this list can apply for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit to be applied to their water or waste water operator certification renewal: