Waste Management
According to WHO, poor waste disposal practices are responsible for a significant proportion of the world's infectious disease burden. In many areas, municipal sewage is often mixed with industrial waste and in some regions very little wastewater receives treatment before it is discharged into the environment. Resources available in this sub-theme include assessment reports of wastewater treatment plants, national strategies for sewage disposal, among other resources that support sustainable waste management.
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Waste Management Resources
Water for the World: Methods of Solid Waste Management
U.S. Agency for International Development
The methods of solid waste management described in this technical note are landfill, composting and biogas systems. A solid waste collection system must go along with all three management methods. All these methods can be built and operated using locally available materials.Read more
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United States, North AmericaWater and Sanitation Markets in the Pacific: Understanding Demand and Fostering Sustainable WASH Marketplaces
The Water Institute at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Sanitation marketing has been identified as a promising approach for increasing access to adequate sanitation. However, it is unclear if sanitation marketing offers a coherent framework that can transform the WASH sector in the Pacific into a sustainable, demand-driven market. Further, access to...Read more
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East Asia and PacificFrontiers of CLTS Issue 3: Disability - Making CLTS Fully Inclusive
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July 25, 2014WaterAid, WEDC - Loughborough University
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) aims at total sanitation. For that it has to be inclusive. There are ethical reasons for this, but the bottom line is that while any open defecation continues, all are affected. This issue of Frontiers of CLTS focuses on people with disabilities and particular...Read more
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Sub-Saharan AfricaOverflowing cities: The State of the World’s Toilets 2016
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November 18, 2016WaterAid
Human beings are now largely an urban species: for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population (54%, or 3.9 billion people) lives in towns, cities and megacities. By 2050, that’s expected to rise to two-thirds. Many new urbanites, and particularly the poorest, are not moving...Read more
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