Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
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Sustainable Sewerage
This handbook describes how conventional sewerage schemes can be modified to reduce the cost of construction and maintenance and suggests methods of prioritizing sewerage needs. Also surveys planning, selection, design, management and maintenance of community schemes as well as providing financial a...
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Low-Cost Sanitation
About two billion people in the world have no adequate sanitation provision. This book is a guide to what has been learned about providing sanitation coverage for both rural and urban low-income communities, and outlines what is appropriate, practical and acceptable.
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On-plot Sanitation in Low-income Urban Communities: A review of the literature
This document reports findings from Phase I (May-August 1992) of an Overseas Development Administration funded project (no. R4857) concerning on-plot sanitation in low- income areas of urban Africa and Asia. Results from the project?s two main tasks ยจ a review of relevant literature and postal surve...
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Water, Sanitation, Environment and Development
This book deals with a wide range of current development issues relating to subjects including community management, groundwater, health and disease, institutional development, irrigation, sanitation, solid waste management, water quality, water sources, water supply and water treatment. It presents...
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Observations of Solid Waste Management in Bombay, 1992
This report is based on information collected by engineers during a training programme in India. It gives a unique insight into actual day-to-day operations in one of India?s largest cities, and demonstrates how this data can be analysed. Subjects include the administrative and legal background, the...
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Developing and Managing Community Water Supplies
Jan Davis, Gerry Garvey, Michael Wood
Based on direct field experience and using short case studies, this book discusses the issues and stages in the development of water supplies, from the initiation of a programme through to the community management of a supply system. The importance of involving all the members of a community in deci...
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Surface Water Treatment for Communities in Developing Countries
Conventional methods for designing water systems in industrialized countries are not appropriate in developing countries. Despite this, the use of sophisticated technologies worldwide is widespread, although in many cases it is inappropriate. There is a lack of information for those wishing to learn...
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Water Sellers
Analyses an innovation in rural development, whereby groups of landless labourers are helped to invest in irrigation equipment and provide a service to farmers, whose holdings may be so dispersed as to make mechanized irrigation technology impractical.
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Water Supplies for Rural Communities
Presents lessons learnt by VSO and other organizations over more than 30 years of working on rural water supply projects, and will be essential reading for anyone involved in implementing water projects, from engineers to hydrologists to health workers. Published in association with VSO.
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The Worth of Water
Brings together a series of short, highly illustrated introductions to many of the main technologies and processes in the field of village and community level water and sanitation, ranging from household water storage to public standposts.