Moilwa.pdf (1.41 MB)
Download fileThe effect of hygiene communication on emptying of urine diversion toilets
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:09 authored by Nancy Moilwa, Melanie WilkinsonDiarrhoeal disease is a major concern to the South African government. Understanding the relationship between the lack
of water and sanitation and diarrhoeal disease, the government has developed a national initiative to provide poor and
rural communities with a basic sanitation facility, one of which is a Urine Diversion toilet. This paper includes assessment
of the effectiveness of hygiene messages on vault emptying behaviours and the possible transfer of pathogens to hands
during emptying processes. The method involve observation of vault emptying behaviours, interviews with key stakeholders
and microbiological analysis of indicator species on hands before and after vault emptying. The results indicated that
health and hygiene messages were not actioned by the study group and that there was no significant difference between
the E-Coli and Faecal coliforms on the hands before and after emptying Conclusions from the study were that correct
operation and maintenance of Urine Diversion toilet require, health and hygiene education programmes to be ongoing
and continue beyond the life of the project.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Published in
WEDC ConferenceCitation
MOILWA, N. and WILKINSON, M., 2006. The effect of hygiene communication on emptying of urine diversion toilets. IN: Fisher, J. (ed). Sustainable development of water resources, water supply and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 32nd WEDC International Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 13-17 November 2006, pp. 119-125.Publisher
© WEDC, Loughborough UniversityVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
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/Publication date
2006Notes
This is a conference paper.Other identifier
WEDC_ID:12659Language
- en