Pro-poor sanitation technologies
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position paper Jan 2007 ; 7 pages
; in Geoforum, Volume 38, Issue 5, September 2007, Pages 901-907
Aut.
Tom Curtis
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Duncan Mara
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Charlotte Paterson
Ed. ScienceDirect - Amsterdam
Editor Presentation
Abstract:
This paper summarises low-cost sanitationtechnologies that have been developed by engineers from around the world, and seeks to provide evidence that there is such a thing as a pro-poortechnology. We argue that simplified sewerage is often the only sanitationtechnology that is technically feasible and economically appropriate for low income, high-density urban areas. Simplified sewerage will only truly be a pro-poortechnology if issues such as lack of investment in sanitation, insufficient cost recovery for sanitation services, conservative technical standards favoured over innovation, low-cost technologies perceived as second class provision, the nature of peri-urban settlements, and lack of engagement with users, are addressed. So often, peri-urban sanitation schemes fail to exist, fail to be sustainable, or fail to be pro-poor. The challenge is for engineers, social scientists and other professionals to work together to make pro-poorsanitation a reality and interdisciplinarity the norm.
Target Audience:
Keywords: |
low cost technology (CI) (DT) (ET) , peri-urban (CI) (DT) (ET) , sanitation (CI) (DT) (ET) , urban (CI) (DT) (ET) |
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ScienceDirect
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Elsevier - Amsterdam - Netherlands |
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