About us
Board of directors
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Dayanand Panse
Director
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As a mechanical Engineer and Director of Shonan Engineering Works Pvt.Ltd , Dayanand Panse has more than 20 years of experience in the broad field of water. To further improve his knowledge he attended a course on Sustainable Sanitation at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway. Amongst others, this course led him into the founding of the now successful Ecosan Services Foundation (ESF). His personal objective is to contribute maximum possible to the society by working in and for water supply and sanitation projects of both urban and rural areas, meanwhile keeping in mind the scenario of water scarcity in near future. He organized various events like 8th international conference of IWWA on ‘Conservation of Water & Reuse of Waste Water, 3 International workshops on ‘Governance and Regulation of Water, International conference on Ecosan and International workshops on Sanitation 21 and Water Safety Plans. |
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Prashant Mahagaokar
Director
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As a B-Tech graduate from IIT in Mumbai Prashant Mahagaokar has set is interest in the water sector. In the position as a keyturner, he has executed a large number of water supply projects as for example World Bank founded project for 46 villages in Thane District or for the Water Supply Project in Nashik. In 2003 he has successfully completed the Ecosan Training at the Norwegian University and is working since then in the field of ecological sanitation. Furthermore he is an active committee member of IWWA, Mumbai Centre. |
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Johannes Heeb
Director
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Johannes Heeb (born 1960), Dr. Phil. II Geographer, has more than 15 years of experience in project development, management, execution and evaluation as well as in applied research. He imports and exports ideas and new business and environmental management methods from and to overseas: for example system dynamics.These methods have taken root, as have seecon's own grapevines in the 'Untersee' vineyard. He is the executive director of seecon international gmbh with headquarters in Aarau, Switzerland and projects all over the world. As president of the International Ecological Engineering Society he maintains lively relationships with scientists and practitioners from all over the world. In his projects he combines scientific requirements, sustainable technology concepts and participative work. |
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Nilaksh Kothari
Director
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Mr Kothari completed 1983 his Bachelor in Civil Engineering at the M.S. University in Baroda, India and finalized later on his Master of Science in Sanitary Engineering at the South Dakota State University, Brookings, USA. Presently Nilaksh Kothari holds the position of the General Manager of Manitowoc Public Utilities in Wisconsin, USA where he is responsible to direct all aspects of the utility, including water, electric, broadband, and steam utility. Utility provides wholesale electric service to two Wisconsin communities through Great Lakes Utilities and provides wholesale water service to six Wisconsin communities through Central Brown County Water Authority. In 1994 promoted as an Environmental Coordinator Responsible for the overall planning, management, and coordination of the environmental issues of the 89.0 MW power plant and electric distribution facilities. This includes hazardous waste disposal, superfund sites coordination, fly ash disposal, PCB disposal, storm water management, and WPDES permits. In the year 2007-2008 Nilaksh Kothari was the President of AWWA |
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"The day everyone of us gets a toilet to use, I shall know that our country has reached the pinnacle of progress" |
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- Jawaharlal Nehru |
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Services Overview
Training Services Education on ecosan by ESF is to enable the people to develop, plan and implement eco-sanitation systems that are hygienically safe, socially acceptable, economically feasible, environmentally sound and technically appropriate.
Promotional Activities ESF partners different organizations in bringing sanitation to limelight, and thus giving true meaning to the word advocacy - “the process of managing information and knowledge strategically to change and/or influence policies and practices that affect the lives of people – particularly the disadvantaged”.
ProjectsThe concept behind ecological sanitation (ecosan) is that sanitation problems could be solved more sustainable and efficiently if the resources contained in excreta and wastewater were recovered and used rather than discharged into the water bodies and the surrounding environment.
Consulting ServicesThe Consulting unit has the mission of supporting individuals, industrial, commercial, residential, educational and governmental partners with the implementation of ecological sanitation systems to manage communal water in their premises.
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