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WEDC Technical Brief No. 61: On-plot sanitation in urban areas

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posted on 2025-02-07, 10:53 authored by Darren Saywell, Rod ShawRod Shaw

This Technical Brief examines the key issues involved in providing sanitation to low-income urban communities. We clarify differences between on-plot and on-site systems, and discuss why people lack latrines, what users want, optimum plot size, and common operational problems and maintenance issues. The findings are based on extensive consultation with urban household in Africa and Asia.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Research Unit

  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

Published in

Running Water. More Technical Briefs on Health, Water and Sanitation

Pages

113 - 116

Publisher

Practical Action Publishing

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© Practical Action Publishing

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All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Practical Action Publishing.

ISBN

9781853394508

eISSN

9781780445816

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Rod Shaw

Depositor

Mr Matthieu Leger, impersonating Darren Saywell Deposit date: 7 February 2025

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