2134/26185 Adrien P. Mazeau Adrien P. Mazeau Robert Reed Robert Reed Kevin Sansom Kevin Sansom Rebecca Scott Rebecca Scott Emerging categories of urban shared sanitation Loughborough University 2017 Developing country Public toilet Sanitation Urban 2017-08-23 13:44:40 Journal contribution https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Emerging_categories_of_urban_shared_sanitation/9584111 With 2.6 billion people without access to improved sanitation facilities and with a growing urban population globally, shared sanitation in the form of public or community latrines is a pragmatic way of increasing coverage, but it is currently not deemed 'improved'. This paper explores the variety of facilities that currently exist in order to identify what would enable some of these latrines to be classed as acceptable and to ensure that future shared sanitation facilities meet minimum standards. The categories mostly relate to issues of ownership, management, location and finance rather than technological considerations. An extensive literature review reveals that the users' perspective of acceptability is largely absent from current discussions.