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2013 - Urban Environmental Sanitation in Nepal, an assessment of community/scale, decentralised wastewater management in Nepal, and the potential for a community/led urban environmental sanitation approach in Tansen - Case studies from Sunga, Srikhandapur, Nala and Bhusal Danda. Bright-Davies, L. Master Thesis at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. [2.47 MB]

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Nepal is experiencing the fastest rate of urbanisation in the South Asian region,with sanitation and wastewater management emerging as some of the biggest challenges in urban …

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2012 - Planning of sustainable sanitation for cities - Factsheet of Working Group 6. Lüthi, C., Lehn, H., Norström, A., Panesar, A., Rüd, S., Saywell, D., Verhagen, J., Ulrich, L.., Ingle, R. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA). [441.91 KB]

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This factsheet deals with the planning of sustainable sanitation for urban and peri-urban areas of developing countries and its importance for achieving comprehensive and inclusive …

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2012 - Selected presentations from IWA Conference on Decentralised Wastewater Management in Asia. Various authors IWA Conference on Decentralised Wastewater Management in Asia, Nagpur, India. [1.61 MB]

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This library entry contains selected presentations from the IWA Conference on Decentralised Wastewater Management in Asia held 20-22 November 2012. …

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2012 - Recognising and dealing with informal influences in water and sanitation services delivery. WSUP Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), London, UK. [814.75 KB]

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Donor-funded water and sanitation improvement programmes tend to focus on and operate within the formal frameworks put in place by municipal or national governments. These …

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2012 - Compilation of 13 factsheets on key sustainable sanitation topics. von Münch, E., Ingle, R., Mbalo, D., Kappauf, L. (eds.) Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) and GIZ, Germany. [5.25 MB]

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This factsheet book is a compilation of 13 thematic factsheets which were produced by the eleven SuSanA working groups. What makes these factsheets special is that they are …

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2012 - Support to the national urban sanitation policy (NUSP) and City Sanitation Plans - Factsheets. GIZ GIZ India. [5.73 MB]

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Sanitation is defined as safe management of human excreta, including its safe confinement treatment, disposal and associated hygiene-related practices. According to official …

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2012 - Urine diversion dry toilets and greywater system, Erdos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China - Case study of sustainable sanitation projects. McConville, J., Rosemarin, A. Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA). [905.29 KB]

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The EETP initiated by the Dongsheng District Government and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has adopted the approach of sustainable sanitation in multi-storey buildings …

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2012 - Reassessing stakeholders’ involvement in environmental sanitation planning and provision - A comparative analysis of three contemporary approaches in East Africa. de Carvalho Rodrigues, M.C. MSc Thesis, Technische Universität Berlin, Fakultät VI – Planen, Bauen & Umwelt, Master’s Program of Urban Management Studies, Berlin, Germany. [4.26 MB]

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Current figures regarding the lack of environmental sanitation services in developing countries pose a great challenge to governments, the private sector, planners and local …

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2011 - Toolkit for urban public sanitation projects in Kenya (Version 1.0). WSTF Water Services Trust Fund, Kenya. [429.31 KB]

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This toolkit contains the complete set of tools (e.g. drawings, BoQs, management guidelines) that the Water Service Providers (WSPs) need to plan, design, implement, manage, …

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2011 - Integrating faecal sludge management (FSM) into urban sanitation planning - Discussion paper. WSUP Water & sanitation for the urban poor (WSUP), London, UK. [4 KB]

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The management of faecal sludge from onsite toilets (pit latrines and septic tanks) is a notoriously difficult problem in dense low-income urban communities: often sludge is dumped …

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