Water Demand Management in the City of the Future: Selected tools and instruments for practitioners

Sam Kayaga

Ian Smout

This book presents examples of tools and instruments that can be adapted by urban water professionals to mainstream WDM in the cities' strategic planning process.

An Engineer's Guide to Domestic Water Containers

Brian Reed

This booklet examines the range of domestic water containers commonly found in low-income countries and explores the role that water containers have in ensuring that household water supplies are adequate and safe. It also explains why planning for a water supply system should not end at the public t...

An Engineer's Guide to Latrine Slabs

Brian Reed

Providing sanitation for all is a major global challenge involving many complex issues. The user of a latrine however, will have more local concerns such as the condition of the latrine slab. This is one of the key components of the most common type of sanitary facility. This booklet highlights the...

Shit Matters

Lyla Mehta, Synne Movik

Sanitation remains one of the biggest development challenges of our time, and a long neglected issue associated with taboos and stigma. Despite growing attention and efforts, many top-down approaches to sanitation have failed, reflecting that simply providing people with a toilet does not necessaril...

Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems

Andreas Ulrich

In many countries, a rapidly upcoming demand for decentralised wastewater treatment systems (DEWATS) and a demand for efficient community-based sanitation (CBS) can be observed. DEWATS is designed to be an element of a comprehensive strategy for city-wide planning and sustainable infrastructure deve...

Greywater Use in the Middle East

Stephen McIlwaine, Mark Redwood

In water-scarce areas of the Middle East, greywater (household wastewater excluding toilet waste) is commonly used by poor communities to irrigate home gardens. This both supplements the water available to the household and improves food security. This book draws together material presented at a con...

Toilets That Make Compost

Peter Morgan

Most People in rural Africa do not have access to safe toilets and their health and well-being suffers as a consequence. There is an urgent need for the construction of simple, low-cost, affordable toilets that are easy to build and maintain. Toilets that make compost provides practical examples of...

Human-Powered Handpumps for Water Lifting

This brief presents an overview of the types of human-powered water lifters available, the applications appropriate to them, and their comparative advantages.

Handbook on Community-Led Total Sanitation

This handbook focuses on igniting a change in sanitation behaviour rather than constructing toilets. It is an attempt to bring together experience, diversified practice and local innovations from different countries and many sources.

Sanitation for Primary Schools in Africa

R.A. Reed, Rod Shaw, Ken Chatterton

Produced as part of WEDC's contribution to the International Year of Sanitation 2008, this book provides easy-to-use tools for assessing sanitation, water supply and hygiene facilities in primary schools in Africa sothat appropriate decisions can be made about sanitation improvements. It also presen...