This book covers the public health, technical, socioeconomic, sociocultural and institutional aspects of sanitation in towns and cities of developing countries. The text features excreta-related diseases and the use of sanitation to reduce their transmission. The sanitation technologies covered in detail are VIP latrines, pour-flush toilets, septic tanks, settled sewerage and simplified sewerage, with additional chapters on sullage disposal, pit emptying, and sewage treatment and reuse. Sociocultural constraints on sanitation systems and their socioeconomic costing are described, together with hygiene education, which is essential in order to achieve maximum benefits to health. The text also explains how to choose the most appropriate sanitation option for a given low-income community. Finally, institutional aspects are reviewed, including effective sanitation programme planning, monitoring and evaluation.
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This book covers the public health, technical, socioeconomic, sociocultural and institutional aspects of sanitation in towns and cities of developing countries. The text features excreta-related diseases and the use of sanitation to reduce their transmission. Sociocultural constraints on sanitation systems and their socioeconomic costing are described, together with hygiene education. The text also explains how to choose the most appropriate sanitation option for a given low-income community. Finally, institutional aspects are reviewed, including effective sanitation programme planning, monitoring and evaluation.
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This book covers the public health, technical, socioeconomic, sociocultural and institutional aspects of sanitation in towns and cities of developing countries. The text features excreta-related diseases and the use of sanitation to reduce their transmission. The sanitation technologies covered in detail are VIP latrines, pour-flush toilets, septic tanks, settled sewerage and simplified sewerage, with additional chapters on sullage disposal, pit emptying, and sewage treatment and reuse. Sociocultural constraints on sanitation systems and their socioeconomic costing are described, together with hygiene education, which is essential in order to achieve maximum benefits to health. The text also explains how to choose the most appropriate sanitation option for a given low-income community. Finally, institutional aspects are reviewed, including effective sanitation programme planning, monitoring and evaluation.
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There was considerable progress in the provision of low-cost water supply and sanitation to low-income communities during the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981-1990), but much still remains to be done in the 1990s and doubtless beyond (Figure 1.1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
simplified sewerage, settled sewerage, emptying costs, alternating twin pits, excreted infections, effluent storage reservoirs, sewer gradient, anal cleansing materials, urban sanitation programmes, sullage disposal, excreted pathogens, conventional sewerage, leach pits, interceptor tanks, vacuum tankers, maturation ponds, squat hole, sanitation promotion, sewer diameter, sanitation alternatives, economic costing, facultative pond, anaerobic pond, shadow factor, unrestricted irrigation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Health Organization, Rio de Janeiro, New York, The Hague, Azevedo Netto, Building Research Establishment, England Fax, John Wiley, Johns Hopkins University Press, Lesotho Bank, Earthscan Publications, Control of Category, Department of Civil Engineering, Engenharia Sanitdria, Environmental Health Project New!
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There was considerable progress in the provision of low-cost water supply and sanitation to low-income communities during the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981-1990), but much still remains to be done in the 1990s and doubtless beyond (Figure 1.1). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
simplified sewerage, settled sewerage, emptying costs, alternating twin pits, excreted infections, effluent storage reservoirs, sewer gradient, anal cleansing materials, urban sanitation programmes, sullage disposal, excreted pathogens, conventional sewerage, leach pits, interceptor tanks, vacuum tankers, maturation ponds, squat hole, sanitation promotion, sewer diameter, sanitation alternatives, economic costing, facultative pond, anaerobic pond, shadow factor, unrestricted irrigation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Health Organization, Rio de Janeiro, New York, The Hague, Azevedo Netto, Building Research Establishment, England Fax, John Wiley, Johns Hopkins University Press, Lesotho Bank, Earthscan Publications, Control of Category, Department of Civil Engineering, Engenharia Sanitdria, Environmental Health Project New!
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- Sustainable Sewerage by R.A Reed on page 104, and page 135
- Low-Cost Sewerage by Duncan Mara on page 103, and page 135
- Septic Tank Systems: A Consultants Toolkit by John H. Timothy Winneberger on page 83
- Enabling Sustainable Community Development (Environmentally Sustainable Development Proceedings) by Ismail Serageldin on page 218
- Sanitation and Disease: Health Aspects of Excreta and Wastewater Management (World Bank studies in water supply & sanitation) by Richard,G. Feachem on page 29
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