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WSP (2009). Are your hands clean enough? - Study findings on handwashing with soap behaviour in Kenya. World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), Kenya. [4.84 MB]

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Washing hands with soap at the right times can reduce instances of diarrhea by 35–50 percent. Evidence also suggests that handwashing with soap can reduce acute respiratory …

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BORDA (2010). EmSan - Emergency Sanitation - An innovative & rapidly applicable solution to safeguard hygiene and health in emergency situations. Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association (BORDA) & BORDA BNS Network. [286.72 KB]

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BORDA’s efforts to improve the DEWATS technology wherever possible has led to a new prefabrication approach: Integrating the DEWATS technology into cargo containers. …

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Kinstedt, K. (2012). Design of a Portable Ecological Sanitation Toilet for Disaster Relief. Institute of Wastewater Management and Water Protection at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. [377.81 KB]

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A portable toilet appropriate for disaster response is presented in this report. The urine is diverted and the feces undergo a lactofermentation process. Biochar is added also to …

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Kinstedt, K. (2012). The Application of Ecological Sanitation for Excreta Disposal in Disaster Relief: Experience, Selection and Design. Institute of Wastewater Management and Water Protection at Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. [2.63 MB]

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When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort. Aid organizations typically dig trench or pit …

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Shangwa, A. (2011). The girl-child and menstrual management in Zimbabwe. SEI, Sweden. [154.28 KB]

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This report is particularly focused on identifying the challenges, statics, and recommendations of menstrual management in Zimbabwe. Case studies for various schools in Zimbabwe …

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Yue Wu (2011). Internationale Übertragbarkeit der in der GIZ Zentrale in Eschborn installierten Braunwasserbehandlungsanlage (in German) - International transferability of the brownwater treatment plants installed in the GIZ’s headquarters in Eschborn.. [3.17 MB]

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NASS („Neuartige Sanitärsysteme“) streben die Rückgewinnung von im Abwasser enthaltenen Ressourcen wie z.B. Nährstoffen und Energie an. Eine Trennung der Abwasserströme ist …

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Zimmermann, N. (2012). Toilets with a biogas/anaerobic digester. Autark Engineering AG, Switzerland. [663.3 KB]

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Here a few information concerning conection of the pipes from the toilets to the digester: …

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Balasubramaniyam, U., Zisengwe, L., Meriggi, N., Buysman, E. (2008). Biogas production in climates with long cold winters. For Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF), The Netherlands. [1.77 MB]

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The concept behind the community based plants is the designing of a plant that can serve more households than those which are suggested for a household plant. This is based on …

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WSP (2011). Inadequate Sanitation Costs Bangladesh BDT 295.5 Billion - An Overview of the economic impacts of inadequate sanitation in Bangladesh. World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), Bangladesh. [1.45 MB]

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The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Sanitation in Bangladesh finds that …

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Groth, F. (2005). Ventilation of dry toilets - Case Study: Close-ups of various installations in Uganda. MSc Thesis. Burgenland University GmbH, Building Technology and Management, Pinkafeld, Germany. [4.13 MB]

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Uganda is still one of the poorest countries in the world and is faced with an …

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CAWST (2011). Introduction to low cost sanitation latrine construction - A CAWST construction manual. Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST), Calgary, Canada. [1.56 MB]

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CAWST is a Canadian non-profit organization focused on the principle that clean water changes lives. Safe water and basic sanitation are fundamentals necessary to empower the …

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WaterAid (2011). Construction of ecological sanitation latrine - Technical handbook. WaterAid, Nepal. [2.57 MB]

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This handbook is the outcome of the ecological sanitation latrine promotion projects carried out by WaterAid’s partners in Nepal: the Environment and Public Health Organisation, …

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Jimenez-Cisneros, B. E. (2007). Helminth ova control in wastewater and and sludge for agricultural reuse. [1.06 MB]

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A new version of the WHO Guidelines for the Safe Use of Waste Water, Excreta and Greywater in Agriculture and Aquaculture has been released in 2006. These guidelines, among other …

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Morgan, P. (2011). The upgraded family well - How to construct. Aquamor Pvt Ltd., Zimbabwe. [2.46 MB]

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Some years ago the government of Zimbabwe initiated a program where assistance was given to families who had taken their own initiative to dig and partly protect their own well. …

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Hoffmann, H. (2012). Construction of bench style double vault urine diversion toilet and alternatives. Rotaria del Peru SAC, Lima, Peru. [2.56 MB]

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This is an excellent construction manual for bench style UDDTs. The use of Urine Diversion (UD) in dry toilets allows faeces dehydration. Urine can be reused as urea, while faeces …

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Kölsch, B. (2012). Effizienz und Nachhaltigkeit des sanitären Versorgungskonzeptes der Stadt Gitega, Burundi (in German) - Efficiency and sustainability of the urban sanitation concept in Gitega, Burundi. MA thesis, Fakultät Bau-Wasser-Boden, Ostfalia, University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany. [2.13 MB]

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(Thesis in German with English summary) …

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WSP-EAP (2009). Information on improved latrine options. Water and sanitation program East Asia and the Pacific (WSP-EAP), Indonesia. [7.45 MB]

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This booklet is really meant to be useful to anyone interested in and working on sanitation programs, and raise people’s awareness of options, create sanitation demand and work …

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SNV (2012). Rural sanitation supply chains and finance - Progress brief. SNV, Hanoi, Vietnam. [472.97 KB]

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This work on Rural Sanitation Supply Chains and Finance is part of the SNV/IRC Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All programme, which aims to improve the health and quality of …

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Gavin, J., Hockley, T., Joyce, S. (1993). Community sanitation improvement and latrine construction program - A training guide. Water and Sanitation for Health Project (WASH), USA. [6.17 MB]

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This training guide provides systematic skill development for local development agents in the steps and techniques necessary for developing or upgrading a sanitation improvement …

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Morgan, P. (2011). Hand washing devices - How to make and use. Aquamor Pvt Ltd., Zimbabwe. [5.25 MB]

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The information in this simple booklet has been accumulated over many years by the writer, from the early days of the Blair Institute, of the Ministry of Health and Child Welfare …

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Schaefer, D., Werchota, R., Dölle, K. (2007). MDG monitoring for urban water supply and sanitation - Catching up with reality in Sub-Saharan Africa. GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH). [1.77 MB]

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In 2004, a detailed nationwide assessment in all settlements of the urban poor in Zambia revealed that sustainable access to safe water in the urban setting diverges substantially …

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Rodda, N., Carden, K., Armitage, N., du Plessis, H. (2011). Development of guidance for sustainable irrigation use of greywater in gardens and small-scale agriculture in South Africa. Water Research Commission (WRC), Pretoria, South Africa. [532.97 KB]

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Greywater is untreated household effluent from baths, showers, kitchen and hand-wash basins and laundry (i.e. all non-toilet uses). More than half of indoor household water is …

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Munyehirwe, A., Kabanda, P. (2008). Performance assessment of Institutional Biogas systems in Rwanda. Inclusive Business and Consultancy Ltd. (IBC Ltd.) Kigali and GTZ, Rwanda. [1.06 MB]

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In September 2008, IBC‐Rwanda was contracted by GTZ to carry out a performance assessment of institutional biogas systems in the country. The main objective was to collect …

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Nienhuys, S. (2006). Do's and Dont's - Manual of the do's and don't that can be thrown into a urine diversion dry toilet (UDDTs) or a pit latrine. Capacity Building for Habitat Improvement in the Hindu Kush Programme.. [414.05 KB]

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Nienhuys, S. (2009). How does a urine diversion and compost toilet work? Ecosan toilet (poster). Capacity Building for Habitat Improvement in the Hindu Kush Programme.. [352.12 KB]

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Nienhuys, S. (2006). Journey of a fly (awareness raising poster/drawing). Capacity Building for Habitat Improvement in the Hindu Kush Programme, European Union, Austrian Development Agency. [1.56 MB]

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Poster: …

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Nienhuys, S. (2011). Your water and your health - Flipchart part one. United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS), Nairobi, Kenya. [5.66 MB]

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Training material developed by Sjoerd Nienhuys, Chief Technical Advisor …

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GTZ (2010). Septic tank (drawing). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany. [148.69 KB]

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Drawing taken from "Feasibility Study for the establishment of a poverty-oriented water supply and sanitation services for Yei, South Sudan" …

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GTZ (2010). Sludge drying bed (drawing). Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany. [86.38 KB]

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Drawing taken from "Feasibility Study for the establishment of a poverty-oriented water supply and sanitation services for Yei, South Sudan" …

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Benzian, H., Monse, B., Belizario, V., Schratz, A., Sahin, M., van Palenstein, W., Helderman, W. (2012). Public health in action: effective school health needs renewed international attention. Glob Health Action 2012, 5: 14870 - DOI: 10.3402/gha.v5i0.14870. [602.43 KB]

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School health programmes as a platform to deliver high-impact health interventions are currently underrated by decision makers and do not get adequate attention from the …

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (2011). Impact evaluation of drinking water supply and sanitation programmes in rural Benin - The risk of vanishing effects. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Netherlands. [3.03 MB]

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In the period 2008–2010, the Evaluation Departments of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in …

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Herbst, S. (2006). Ecology and development series No. 43, 2006 - Water, sanitation, hygiene and diarrheal diseases in the Aral Sea area. PhD thesis, Cuvillier Verlag Göttingen, Germany. [1.52 MB]

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This study aimed to create active monitoring data on the incidence of diarrheal diseases and to study the risk factors water, sanitation and hygiene. For the epidemiological data …

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ESF (2008). Do's and Dont's of UDD toilet. Ecosan Services Foundation (ESF), India. [69.45 KB]

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Niwagaba, C. (2011). The role of urban authorities and utilities in promoting sanitation as a business. Sustainable Sanitation & Water Renewal Systems (SSWARS), Kampala, Uganda. [1.76 MB]

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The following presentation given by Charles Niwagaba, the director of the NGO Sustainable Sanitation and Water Renewal Systems (SSWARS) provides a good overview about the tools …

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Akotch, J. (2004). Design of appropriate dry toilets for children and the disabled - Final project report. Bachelor thesis, Makerere University, Uganda. [531.53 KB]

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ECOSAN is a concept that is based on the separation of human waste into its components, the products are then being sanitized and reused. The Ecosan principle has been used in a …

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Niwagaba, C. (2005). Documentation and evaluation of ecosan experiences in Uganda - Preliminary do’s and don’ts in EcoSan implementation in Uganda. Government of Uganda Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment, The Directorate of Water Development, Uganda. [834.25 KB]

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Ecological sanitation (ecosan) was introduced in Uganda as an alternative sanitation system that could solve the problems of traditional means of human excreta management namely …

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Ntabadde, M.K. (2004). Design of a dry toilet ventilation system to accelerate drying - Final year project report. Makerere University, Faculty of Technology Department of civil engineering, Makerere, Uganda. [772.91 KB]

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Ecological Sanitation systems have been recently developed to help ameliorate the problems of pollution, excess usage of water and wastage of nutrients, which were characterising …

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Montag, D., Gethke, K., Everding, W., Pinnekamp, J. (2009). Nährstoff- und Schadstoffgehalte in Sekundärphosphaten (in German) - Nutrient and contaminant levels in secondary phosphates. GWA Band 217, 42. Essener Tagung für Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft, J. Pinnekamp (ed.), Institute of Environmental Engineering of the RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany. [88.38 KB]

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Im Fokus dieses Beitrages stehen die Nähr- und Schadstoffgehalten von Sekundärphosphaten, die im Bereich der Abwasser- und Klärschlammbehandlung gewonnen wurden und als …

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Winker, M., Dimova, D., Ritter, K., Otterpohl, R., Clemens, J. (2010). Effect of five pharmaceutical substances contained in urine on the germination of cress and cereal seedlings. IWA Conference Sustainable solutions for small water and wastewater treatment systems, Girona, Spain. [255.74 KB]

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Usage of urine in agriculture includes the risk of spreading pharmaceutical residues on to agricultural fields. It is unclear if concentrations applied can cause any adverse …

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Löw, K. (2011). An innovative greywater treatment system for urban areas - International transferability of a German approach, installed in GIZ's headquarters in Eschborn. [2.97 MB]

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In its German headquarters in Eschborn, GIZ installed a greywater treatment system within the research project SANIRESCH. It is based on membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology …

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Braum, C. (2010). Economical feasibility of using urine versus struvite as fertiliser - Using the example of GIZ in Eschborn. Bachelor Thesis, Faculty 09 - Agricultural Sciences, Nutritional Sciences and Environmental Management, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. [1.07 MB]

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The research’s aim was to identify the most favourable alternative of human urine and struvite usage as innovative fertilisers compared to traditional resources. …

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Lazo Páez, A. (2010). Economic feasibility study of the new sanitation system in building 1 in the GTZ headquarters. [3.49 MB]

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Based on the guidelines published by the Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser (LAWA, 2005), this study evaluated the economic performance of part of the system for the treatment and …

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Ecosan Club (ed.) (2012). 10 years ecosan club. Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP), Issue 10. EcoSan Club, Austria. [4.55 MB]

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EcoSan Club was founded on 20.02.2002 and is therefore celebrating its 10 year anniversary in 2012. We decided to devote issue 10 of Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP) to „10 …

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Ecosan Club (ed.) (2011). Solutions for mountain regions. Sustainable Sanitation Practice (SSP), Issue 8. EcoSan Club, Austria. [3.79 MB]

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There are thousands of public and private mountain refuges located in the alpine regions. The increased number of visitors has raised the concerns on the environmental impact on …

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Klutsé, A., Dagerskog, L. (2009). Agro money for sanitation provision – examples from Niger, Burkina Faso and Côte, examples from Niger, Bukina Faso. Poster at Dry Toilet Conference, Tampere, Finland. [328.04 KB]

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By emphasizing the reuse potential with EcoSan, CREPA has managed to mobilize funds from the agriculture sector: …

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Chang, Y., Wagner, M., Cornel, P. (2007). Treatment of grey water for urban water reuse. Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut WAR, Darmstadt, Germany. [401.47 KB]

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Adequately treated grey water is a suitable resource for urban water supply, where no drinking water quality is required. Grey water is collected from indoor sources other than …

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Marcos, C. (2012). L'assanissement ecologique - Pourqoui, comment, combien? (in French) - Ecological sanitation - why, how, how much?. Ecocentre Pierre et Terre, France. [7.39 MB]

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Ce manuel présente les techniques d’assainissement écologique sur lesquelles l’association Pierre et Terre est à même de conseiller et d’accompagner un porteur de projet. …

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Carlesen, J., Vad, J., Otoi, S. (2008). Kampala City Council - A project for promoting ecological sanitation in Kampala, Uganda - Final evaluation report. Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Stockholm, Sweden. [711.69 KB]

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Sida has supported the promotion of EcoSan in Kampala City Council (KCC) since 2002 through the Lake Victoria Programme. Ecological sanitation is based on the principle that urine, …

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GIZ, AHT Group (2011). Réutilisons des eaux grises pour les petits jardins Protégeons notre Source Sidi Othmane Faisons Florisser notre oasis (in French) - Reuse greywater for small gardens protecting our Source Sidi Othmane Florisser. [2.69 MB]

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The oasis town of Béni Abbès is located in the catchment basin of the Oued Saoura in the North-Western Sahara. In this area the average annual precipitation is generally below …

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Rosensweig, F., Kopitopoulos, D. (2010). Training and capacity building to scale up rural sanitation. World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), USA. [830.57 KB]

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The Water and Sanitation Program’s (WSP’s) Global Scaling Up Sanitation …

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