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Sanitation problems faced by selected slum women - a micro level study

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posted on 2018-11-08, 11:49 authored by Sreebhagya Lakshmi, Sherly Thomas
Sanitation is a major challenge faced by women living in slums. Women in slums are engaged in money earning for the living as the low income forces them to be so, even when they are uneducated. Slum life has never been easy for the urban poor so far as housing and living conditions are concerned. For women, the problems are especially acute. Apart from their struggle for living in limited facilities, they are facing many sanitation problems like lack of individual toilets, lack of sufficient water supply, bad drainage and garbage spilled all over the street. All these make life for women in slums more complicated. The study aims at analysing various problems tackled by them and also the severity of the problem faced by them guides the policy makers to focus on the problems that need immediate action.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

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Transformation towards sustainable and resilient WASH services: Proceedings of the 41st WEDC International Conference

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LAKSHMI, S. and THOMAS, S., 2018. Sanitation problems faced by selected slum women - a micro level study. IN: Shaw, R.J. (ed). Transformation towards sustainable and resilient WASH services: Proceedings of the 41st WEDC International Conference, Nakuru, Kenya, 9-13 July 2018, Paper 2980, 5 pp.

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© WEDC, Loughborough University

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2018

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This is a conference paper.

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  • en

Location

Nakuru, Kenya

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