Title | Tackling a global crisis: International Year of Sanitation 2008 |
Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
Year of Publication | 2008 |
Authors | UN-Water -New York, NY, US |
Pagination | 33 p. : boxes, fig., photogr., tab. |
Date Published | 2008-01-01 |
Publisher | UN-Water |
Place Published | New York, NY, USA |
Keywords | access to sanitation, advocacy, economic aspects, environmental impact, government organizations, health aspects, policies, sanitation, sdipol, sewerage, social aspects, urban areas |
Abstract |
The General Assembly of the United Nations declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation. 'Sanitation' might mean different things to different people, but its definition has to include 'the safe management of human excreta', usually by means of a toilet that confines faeces until composted and safe, or that enables them to be flushed away into a sewer. In the fullest sense, as understood for the IYS, sanitation includes environmental cleanliness; handwashing, garbage removal and wastewater disposal. The concept of sanitation as 'clean living', free from contact with excreta and other disease-carrying agents', now being actively promoted in Bangladesh, India and elsewhere, in which toilets are an important component, is a more attractive and saleable prospect in some settings than excreta management alone. This is captured by the concept of 'total sanitation'. |
Notes | 23 ref. |
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