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1. Flagship RRR Research

1. Flagship RRR Research. Objective: To increase the scale and viability of the safe and productive reuse of water , nutrients , organic matter and energy from domestic and agro-industrial waste streams.

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1. Flagship RRR Research

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  1. 1. Flagship RRR Research Objective: To increase the scale and viability of the safe and productive reuse of water, nutrients, organicmatter and energy from domestic and agro-industrial waste streams. Locations: Reuse cases are being analyzed in ca. 20 locations across Asia, LAC, SSA, and MENA. Outputs: Compendium of 50 promising (and fully analyzed) business cases as well as emerging & potential business models for waste reuse. Sanitation Safety Plans for reuse risk assessment & mitigation for the business models (WHO -led). Investment plans for the implementation of safe business models in about 6 cities across the developing world. Outcomes: More investments in RRR, Cost recovery in the sanitation service chain, More resilient systems, Increased food safety.

  2. 2. Accompanying Action Research • Examples: • Retrofitting ww treatment plants towards reuse. • Testing natural treatment systems (RBF, MAR, wetlands). • Value addition to raw waste through blending, composting, pelletizing to increase its safety and marketability. • Testing organic fertilizers in the field. • Donors: AfDB, EU, BMGF, others

  3. 3. International Public Goods • Activities: • Supporting curricula and global training events: UN-Water (WHO, FAO, UNEP, UNU) is using our staff and publications for e-learning and a series of 7 regional training workshops on safe wastewater irrigation around the globe (aiming at participants from 100 countries). • Establishing a global database and modeling of wastewater use; to be eventually linked to FAO. • Supporting the 2012 edition of the USAID/ USEPA Wastewater Reuse Guidelines (second most popular global guidelines). • Outputs: IPGs (UN-Water tool kit, UNU e-learning, Global guidelines, Global databases; White Papers  Information SRP).

  4. Science behind RRR: Development of sub-sector markets in the waste value chain via business model development based on neoclassical economic theory concepts such as theory of the firm, resource-based view theory. We examine market constructs via principal-agent models; market structure and dynamics of value networks and their implications for sustainable business model creation. Assessment of social welfare improvement along the waste value chain based on pareto-optimal conditions. Development and adoption of RRR business models under risk and uncertainty through Markov chain applications. Valuation of externalities (i.e. market and non-market) based on revealed and stated preference approaches.

  5. Smart ICT, Household based RWH, Green water credits (PES), Spate irrigation Service offer for CRP5 projects ? How to add a business perspective? How to sell a project to an investor in development (private capital, IFAD, USAID, BMGF, AfDB, etc.)? How to go to scale and support an Outcome ?

  6. Three SRPs at the core of Natural Resources Management While the Rainfedand Irrigation SRPs aim at maximizing the productive use of water, land and nutrients for agriculture, … RRR complements them by recovering used, wasted or underutilized resources to close the nutrient and water cycles or prevent methane generation in support of critical ecosystem services. In this way RRR supports strongly system resilience.

  7. On basins • Our activities, outputs and outcomes do in most cases not use (biophysical) basin or landscape boundaries as a useful unit. • A catchment perspective (e.g. downstream pollution) is relevant to maybe 25% of our work. • We are using socio-economic units like distance from markets to describe spatial boundaries in our research, and mostly operate across the rural - urban trajectory.

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