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Sanitation and Wastewater

The lack of adequate sanitation facilities in both urban and rural communities is a major cause of water pollution and has adverse effects on people's health and lives. These case studies present developing countries' solutions to their sanitation problems which include the provision of ecological sanitation (ECOSAN) toilets, efficient water treatment systems, among others.
Title Date
3rd Water Supply and Sanitation Project—Participatory, Consultative and Empowering 2006/09
A Year after the Quake, Sanitation Changes Lives 2006/11
Breaking a Dirty Old Habit 2009/01
Bringing Water Supply and Sanitation Services to Tribal Villages in Orissa the Gram Vikas Way 2006/04
Changes Introduce Indonesia to New Remedies to Old Maladies 2006/03
Changing Mindsets to Clean Rivers 2009/04
Changing the Sanitation Landscape 2009/02
Dousing Melbourne’s Dry Spells with Recycled Water 2009/07
Educating Kids for a Healthy Future 2009/02
Infrastructures and Institutions for Urban Water Supply and Sanitation 2006/05
Ladies First: Accessible Water for Entrepreneurial Women in Pakistan 2004
Life After 100% Urban Sanitation 2007/08
Living on City Wastewater 2009/07
Low-Cost Toilets Change the Face of Bhopal’s Slums 2006/06
Making Rural Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Gender-Sensitive and Pro-Poor 2006/05
Manila Water’s Neo–Way with Sanitation—Desludge and Dilute, Connect and Treat, Put Waste to Use 2007/08
Meeting the Sanitation Challenge: Low Technology, High Rewards 2006/01
NGO, Slum Dwellers Surmount Water and Sanitation Problems in Dhaka 2006/01
Orangi Residents Solve Sanitation Woes 2007/10
Private Funds for Cleaner Water—BOT Applied in the Chinese Wastewater Sector 2007/02
Project Brings Hope for Clean-up of Rawalpindi's "Shame" 2006/07
Providing Water Supply and Sanitation to the Chittagong Hill Tracts 2006/05
Resuscitating the Pasig River 2009/04
Rising Eco-Town Boasts No-Flush Toilets 2008/03
Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project 2004/07
San Fernando’s Dry Alternative 2008/03
Science Makes Sludge Useful 2009/07
Securing the Lives and Landscape of Hidden Paradise 2005/11
Smart Sanitation Cleans Lilo-an’s Coast 2007/02
Squeezing Wine from Wastewater—Lessons in Reuse 2007/02
Starting Young in Water Resources Conservation 2007/10
Toilet Taboos Down the Drain 2007/09
Toilet Technology for Human Dignity 2008/04
Using Solid Waste to Treat Water Waste 2007/02
Waste Threat Prompts Village Action 2008/01
Water and Sanitation Initiative for Urban Poor 2002
Water Treatment Success Overshadows Solid Waste Management 2006/04
Women Hold Key to Accepting Toilets 2007/09

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