The government of Bangladesh is increasingly paying attention to the safe collection and disposal of fecal sludge from pit latrines in rural areas. In this paper, we report on current sludge disposal practices from single-pit latrines, by conducting a survey of 1,091 households with pit latrines ...
Balasubramanya, Soumya
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Evans, E.
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Ahmed, R.
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Habib, A.
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Asad, N.S.M.
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Rahman, M.
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Hasan, M.
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Dey, D.
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Camargo-Valero, M.A.
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Rao, Krishna Chaitanya
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Fernando, Sudarshana
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[Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines]
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Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines
Recovering nutrients, water and energy from domestic waste streams, including wastewater and faecal sludge, is slowly gaining momentum in low-income countries. Resource recovery and reuse (RRR) offers value beyond environmental benefits through cost recovery. An expected game changer in sanitatio...
Rao, Krishna C.
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Otoo, Miriam
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Drechsel, Pay
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Hanjra, Munir A.
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[Resource recovery and reuse as an incentive for a more viable sanitation service chain]
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Resource recovery and reuse as an incentive for a more viable sanitation service chain
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore people’s perceptions, stated attitudes, and observed and reported behaviour to water and other environmental quality.
Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted a mixed method approach. It employed a cross-sectional survey design. Ten communiti...
Abraham, Ernest M.
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Martin, A.
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Cofie, Olufunke O.
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[Perceptions, attitudes and behaviours toward urban surface water quality in Accra, Ghana]
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Perceptions, attitudes and behaviours toward urban surface water quality in Accra, Ghana