In Mongolia, it is not only urban settlements that are the focus of water consumption, but also the wastewater discharge into surface waters and outdated infrastructures mainly from the 1960s certainly do not help. For example, the unofficial yurt settlements on the outskirts of cities that have seen an unprecedented rate of expansion over recent decades are usually not connected to central public utility services. Consequently, the project has introduced some pilot measures over recent years to reduce water losses from pipe leakages in the urban public utility services distribution network as well as a pilot project for the central, semi-central and decentralized treatment of wastewater. Such solutions are now to be implemented on a larger scale and it will be tested as to whether they can be transferred to other regions of Mongolia.

Pilot projects:

• Decentralized Waste Water Management in Orkhon Sum
• Waste water treatment plant with integrated wood production
• SBR pilot plant on the central waste water treatment plant in Darkhan City
• iPiT - integrated Personal innovative Toilet