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Emerging categories of urban shared sanitation

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posted on 2017-08-23, 13:44 authored by Adrien P. Mazeau, Robert Reed, Kevin Sansom, Rebecca ScottRebecca Scott
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.

Funding

This paper is part of a 3-year PhD research project examining the acceptability of shared sanitation in low-income urban settlements.

History

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Research Unit

  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

Published in

Water and Environment Journal

Volume

28

Issue

4

Pages

592 - 608

Citation

MAZEAU, A. ... et al., 2014. Emerging categories of urban shared sanitation. Water and Environment Journal, 28 (4), pp. 592 - 608.

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. © CIWEM

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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/

Acceptance date

2014-12-01

Publication date

2013-12-22

Notes

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mazeau, A., Reed, B., Sansom, K. and Scott, R. (2014), Emerging categories of urban shared sanitation. Water Environ J, 28: 592–608, which has been published in final form at: https://doi.org/10.1111/wej.12075. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.

ISSN

1747-6585

eISSN

1747-6593

Language

  • en

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