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Water, Sanitation, Environment and Development

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This book deals with a wide range of current development issues relating to subjects including community management, groundwater, health and disease, institutional development, irrigation, sanitation, solid waste management, water quality, water sources, water supply and water treatment. It presents over forty papers presented at the 19th WEDC Conference held in Accra, Ghana, in 1993. Material is drawn from countries in all parts of the world.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION XI Section 1 COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT D R Birch and P D H Field UK/Pakistan Rural community-managed projects, Balochistan Ms Rudith S King and Dr Romanus Dinye Ghana Women, children,water/sanitation development Dr T V Luong, F Njau and A Y Kahesa Tanzania Towards self-management: water and sanitation Pius B Mabuba Tanzania Strategies for effective community involvement Ofori MacCarthy and Dr Andrew Livingstone Ghana Community planning of water supplies Baby Mogane-Ramahotswa S Africa The spread effect of a pilot community project Ms Fati Mumuni Ghana Working with rural folk in the Northern Region Adrian Wilson S Africa Community participation: Umgeni Water's approach Section 2 GROUNDWATER Robert R Bannerman Ghana Siting of sanitary landfill and faecal treatment NK Sekpey and S A Larmie Ghana Nitrate pollution of groundwater sources at Oyarifa Richard M Teeuw UK Low-cost GIS for water resources Section 3 HEALTH AND DISEASE Dr Sam Bugri Ghana Community-based surveillance in GWEP, Ghana Dr Sandy Cairncross Burkino Faso Guineaworm eradication - Is the target attainable? Mrs Jemima A Dennis-Antwi Ghana Participatory methods in hygiene communication Susanne Niedrum Rwanda The need for hygiene education Section 4 INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT Peter Barker WEDC Pricing water to recover costs Erich Baumann Switzerland Private sector involvement Dr Mrs V Hemalatha Devi India Legal module for environmental protection Duncan Morris Cote d'lvoire Thinking things through Professor S Mustafa Nigeria Improving water supply through privatization Dr Wilfred Owen, Jr Egypt Utility development: Cairo, Egypt Mike Wood Canada Privatization of rural water supply Section 5 IRRIGATION Lana Abu-Hijleh Palestine Treated wastewater re-use in the Gaza Strip SKAgodzo, J M Gowing & M A Adey Ghana/UK Trickle irrigation using porous clay pots Section 6 SANITATION A H Abel and S V Dohrman Malawi Makata pumpable VIP latrine block Rob Burgess S Africa Rural school sanitation pilot project Shamsul Huda India Subsidy: to what extent? Dr Joyce Malombe Kenya Sanitation and solid waste disposal in Malindi Maria Muller, Jasper Kirango and Jaap Rijnsburger Tanzania An alternative pit latrine emptying system JohnPickford WEDC Low-cost sanitation research and GARNET Martin Strauss Switzerland Treatment of sludges from on-site sanitation Section 7 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT S Mansoor Ali, Adrian Coad and Andrew Cotton WEDC Informal sector waste recycling Inge Lardinois and Arnold van de Klundert Netherlands Small enterprises for solid waste recycling Section 8 WATER QUALITY 123 Dr Margaret Ince and Miss TI Ojo WEDC/Nigeria Pollution in Lagos Lagoon systems 125 Grace Rukure, Shungu Mtepo and Cornelius Mukandi Zimbabwe Water quality in family wells 127 Section 9 WATER SOURCES 131 Siaw Awuah and John Addy Ghana Earth dams for RWS in Northern Region 133 Dr Layi Egunjobi Nigeria Rainwater-harvesting initiatives in Ekpoma, Nigeria 137 Section 10 WATER SUPPLY 141 Dr Manu N Kulkarni India Pumps, people and payments 143 Peter Smith and A Mbaye UK Pipeline extensions spread benefits 146 Section 11 WATER TREATMENT 149 Dr Christopher J Austin The Gambia Chlorinating household water in The Gambia 151 Michael D Smith WEDC Domestic solar disinfection for potable water 154 J P Sutherland, G K Folkard, M A Mtawali & W D Grant UK Moringa oleifera at pilot/full scale 156 Martin Wegelin and Kolly Dorcoo Switzerland/Ghana Water treatment in northern Ghana 158


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781780446394
  • Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Practical Action Publishing
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 178044639X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 1994
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 174


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