Sanitation Ambassadors

09/12/2025

Brand new article in Infrastructure News SA.

04/12/2025

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/birger-burger-lundgren-6617511_want-to-save-coral-reefs-start-with-toilets-activity-7402340582909444096-u5a0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABJw2kBq6E84qnR_73aoyzwDVVpLzrOMVI

Want to Save Coral Reefs? Start With Toilets. I’ve been digging into the new Copernicus Ocean State Report and the message is pretty simple. Our oceans are getting hammered. Record heat. Rising seas. Acidifying water. Coral reefs pushed to the edge. And here’s the part nobody likes to talk about...

04/12/2025

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-does-spotify-have-do-sht-more-than-you-think-lundgren-hmkwc

If you grew up in Sweden, you know the Spotify story by heart. A couple of young founders looked at an industry built on plastic discs, giant distribution systems and outdated business models, "free" downloading and said, “This is stupid.

15/11/2025

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cholera-alarm-we-keep-snoozing-birger-burger-lundgren-a3iqf

t disappears from the headlines, but it always comes back to the same places. Rural settlements, informal areas, low-lying communities living next to contaminated water.

11/10/2025

www.sanitationambassadors.org is down and they working on it

Let’s get the facts straight Sanitation in South African schools is a mess! According to a National Education Infrastructure Management report, more than 12 000 schools in South Africa use pit latrines which negatively affect the lives of 5 to 6 million children and teachers. It’s our mission is...

11/10/2025

Our WaSH Centre 2.0 in Easter Cape
Three toilets and on waterless urinal
This is fast track to SDG 6.2

11/10/2025

From Double to Sixfold and Still Behind

Back in 2015, when the SDGs were launched, the message was simple: we need to double investment in water and sanitation to reach SDG 6.2.

By 2017, the tune had changed. WHO and UN-Water said we need to triple investments, around 114 billion USD a year, just for the infrastructure.

Fast forward a few years. New data came in. Progress was too slow. The call went from quadruple, to fivefold, and now in 2025 the UN and World Bank are saying the truth out loud: we need a sixfold increase in the rate of progress on sanitation and water if we want universal access by 2030.

Sixfold. That is not a typo.

This is not about charity. Unsafe sanitation kills children, pollutes rivers, spreads disease, and holds economies back. Yet we are still talking about “low-cost toilets” as if the price tag is the problem. We never ask for a low cost army. We never ask for a low cost airport. Why do we still accept the idea of low cost toilets?

Container-Based Sanitation (CBS) is already proving that modern sanitation can be scaled quickly, safely, and affordably. The CBS market is growing faster than many traditional WASH approaches and has been one of the strongest growth segments in the entire sanitation sector. It is a cost-effective alternative especially in rural areas and informal settlements where sewers will never reach. CBS treats waste as a resource, creates jobs, and delivers dignity. This is a solution ready now. And when the “holy grail” of sanitation finally arrives, it will be welcome, but we cannot sit and wait for it.

According to University College London, if we solve sanitation we hit all the SDG targets. That means sanitation is not just one goal, it is like killing 17 birds with one stone.

We keep underestimating the problem and it is more talking than action.

The number has grown from double to sixfold because of that underestimation. If we keep pushing deadlines, maybe in 2030 we will just rename them. Call them the IDGs, Important Development Goals, and move the target to 2045. Then we can have fresh logos, new conferences, and more reports. But what people really need are toilets that work and systems that last.

Let’s make sh*t happen.

03/10/2025

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sarika-saluja_worldtoiletsummit2025-mohua-sanitationfordignity-activity-7379838341426352129-3eMB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAABJw2kBq6E84qnR_73aoyzwDVVpLzrOMVI

🌍 Health, Water, and Sanitation: Breaking the Chain of Infection We are honoured to welcome Mr Birger "Burger" Lundgren, CEO and Founder of Sanitation Ambassadors NPC and the Water & Sanitation Project, to the World Toilet Summit 2025 in New Delhi. His pioneering work in sustainable...

15/08/2025

15/08/2025

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/great-sanitation-shuffle-we-just-moving-sht-around-lundgren-notbc/?trackingId=xT4pRdcWdrF6N2Q44uT56Q%3D%3D

I went to a sanitation seminar the other day, and one thing hit me like a blocked toilet: after nine years, we’ve made only slight progress, when what we actually need is a full-on systems reboot, and fast. Let’s flush out some bitter truths.

15/08/2025

WaSH Centre in Peddie with 3 toilets and 1 urinal. Built fast and uses only 0.4 litres of water each time — 0.1 for flushing and 0.3 for washing hands. A smart way to save water, perfect for areas where every drop counts.