About Us
We are engineers, scientists, and change makers who share a common vision to make the world a lot less shitty.
Team Sankoya
Our Values
Our Planet: Clean water is not enough. We believe in treading lightly on ALL counts: less land, less electricity and less waste.
Innovation: Science and engineering are instrumental in tackling tough global challenges. But ingenuity, creativity and resilience is the secret sauce.
Community: Their voices matter.
Women and Girls: Only 33% of females have access to safe sanitation. Yet women and girls are disproportionately impacted and bear the greatest burden of sanitation insecurity.
News
ADB AWARDS GRANT TO PROMOTE EFFICIENT WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND SANITATION
"ADB congratulates Sankoya Technologies for winning the Urban Development Technology Innovation Challenge (TIC), which is supported and financed by the High-Level Technology Fund (HLT Fund)."
'Magic' toilet research funded by Bill Gates foundation
"Cheap, waterless toilets that can turn human waste into clean water and fertilizer within 24 hours are being designed and built by eight engineering teams around the world, including one from Canada."
People to Watch: Yu-Ling Cheng
"Cheng and a team of mostly University of Toronto engineers put their heads together to design what might be the perfect head for developing nations."
U of T scholars work to build a better toilet
"The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will offer $400,000 (U.S.) to teams at eight universities around the world to reinvent the toilet for use in developing countries. Dr. Cheng's team was the only in Canada to receive funding as part of the project.