Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
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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.
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Community Health and Sanitation
A community-sensitive approach to the developing world's water supply; for students, trainers and engineers alike Community Health and Sanitation deals with disease and problems of water in the house and at the source, waste disposal, and education and training. This is a companion book to the recen...
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Community Water Development
The UN Water Decade has been the catalyst for much research and development in water-related fields, and one result of the Decade has been improved dissemination of the water technologies being developed. Community Water Development presents some of the best material from leading researchers and pr...
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Groundwater Dams for Small-Scale Water Supply
Looking at inexpensive methods for water supply schemes in rural areas of developing countries, this book examines the suitable conditions and economic factors for different types of groundwater dam and describes planning and investigation methods.
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Rainwater Harvesting
This book emphasizes the importance of social, economic, and environmental considerations when planning and implementing projects. For rural development workers, it aims to fill the gap in existing literature on the gathering and storage of rainwater.
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Hand Pump Maintenance
A guide to the technical and social problems involved in community well projects, with an extension and evaluation of the different types of hand pumps available.
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Human and Animal-powered Water Lifting Devices
The purpose of this study is to provide a state-of-the-art survey of both the technical and the socio-economic aspects of human and animal-powered water lifting. Contents include: Human-powered water-lifters - technical and social aspects, Animal-powered water-lifters - technical and social aspects,...