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De ingewanden van de stad : het verhaal van de Brusselse riolen
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ISBN: 9782930423272 Year: 2019 Publisher: Bruxelles Museum van de stad Brussel

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Les entrailles de la ville : le charme discret des égouts bruxellois est la nouvelle publication de la collection Historia Bruxellae des Musées de la Ville de Bruxelles. Découvrez à quel point l'histoire de la Senne et celle des égouts sont intimement liées et pourquoi elles alimentent encore aujourd'hui les enjeux de la gestion de l'eau en ville. Où se cache la Senne aujourd'hui ? Sous quelles formes s'organise le vaste réseau souterrain qui draine nos eaux usées ? Qui sont les personnes qui veillent quotidiennement à son entretien et dans quelles conditions accomplissent-ils leurs missions ? Comment le centre-ville, situé en fond de vallée, échappe-t-il aux inondations ? Quels sont les enjeux de l'épuration de l'eau au 21e siècle ?

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Sustaining high performing public enterprises : case study of national water and sewerage corporation, Uganda
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ISBN: 9781789060256 9781789060249 Year: 2019 Publisher: London, England : IWA Publishing,

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The Chicago River : a natural and unnatural history
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ISBN: 9780809337088 0809337088 9780809337071 080933707X Year: 2019 Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,

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"A social and ecological account of the Chicago River, beginning with its geological foundations and extending to the present, the book tells how a sluggish waterway emptying into Lake Michigan became central to the creation of Chicago as a major transportation hub. Originally published by Lake Claremont Press in 2000 and reprinted by SIU Press in 2016, this revised edition updates the story."--


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Health, Safety and Dignity of Sanitation Workers : An Initial Assessment.
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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The global sanitation workforce bridges the gap between sanitation infrastructure and the provision of sanitation services. Sanitation workers provide an essential public service but often at the cost of their dignity, safety, health, and living conditions. They are some of the most vulnerable workers. They are far too often invisible, unquantified, and ostracized, and many of the challenges they face stem from this fundamental lack of acknowledgment. Sanitation workers are exposed to serious occupational and environmental health hazards risking illness, injury, and death. This report presents the findings of a study that examined nine case studies of sanitation workers in low- and middle-income countries, predominantly focusing on emptying pits and tanks, providing transportation of fecal sludge, and performing sewer maintenance. It is an initial analysis into a growing body of work on sanitation workers, but already the findings highlight several action areas to ensure that efforts in reaching Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 6.2 and 6.3 do not compromise the dignity, health, and rights of the workforce. Collecting data from literature and key informant interviews, the nine cases provide an overview of the key challenges sanitation workers face. The report also addresses good practices and suggests areas for action.


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Safely Managed Sanitation in High-Density Rural Areas : Turning Fecal Sludge into a Resource through Innovative Waste Management
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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Safely managed sanitation is a focus of the SDGs and central to stunting reduction and early childhood survival, both identified by the World Bank's Human Capital Index as critical for humans to develop their full potential. In 2015, 4.5 billion people lacked access to safely managed sanitation. This paper finds that hundreds of millions more people are exposed to significant health risks due to unsafely managed sanitation. This report explores the challenges of fecal sludge management (FSM) in densely populated rural areas and it presents some typical current practices, examples of financially sustainable FSM services, and global innovations in waste management with potential replicability for FSM. Its aim is to promote dialogue on how to move from the Millennium Development Goals' approach to rural sanitation-effectively, building toilets-to the Sustainable Development Goals' approach: safely managed sanitation systems. The paper concludes that the sanitation service chain spans both private and public goods, and market mechanisms are not always adequate to mitigate the safety risks. Public funding will be needed to cover the affordability gap and address safely managed sanitation, requiring a clear and long-term commitment and support from government. The case is similar to that for networked sanitation: without public support, improving the safety of existing FSM services is likely to decrease profit margins and potentially render businesses unviable.


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A Groundwater Modelling Investigation of Greywater Disposal : South Tarawa, Kiribati
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This report focused on a numerical modelling assessment of the possible effects of greywater reuse on the freshwater lenses in South Tarawa, Kiribati. Conceptual models and 2D cross-sectional numerical models of selected transects of Betio, Bairiki and Bikenibeu Islands were developed based on available field data. Simulations then were used to assess greywater transport and its effects on freshwater lenses in current situation and future scenarios. The modelling results show that adding the greywater discharge increases notably the freshwater thickness compared to the baseline scenario where greywater discharge is neglected. Eight scenarios were simulated to test the influence of rainfall dynamics and groundwater abstraction rates on the contribution of greywater disposal on freshwater lens thickness. The report then provides recommendations for future work to enhance the outcomes of future modelling efforts and the feasibility of indirect greywater reuse.


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Building drainage : an integrated design guide
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ISBN: 9781785006395 1785006398 Year: 2019 Publisher: Ramsbury, Marlborough : The Crowood Press Ltd,


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An underground guide to sewers : or: Down, through & out in Paris, London, New York, &c.
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ISBN: 9780262043342 0262043343 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge The MIT Press

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Lose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders, engineers and, perhaps, the odd rogue explorer. This execrable exploration traces the evolution of waste management from the ingenious infra-structures of the ancient world to the seeping cesspits and festering open sewers of the medieval period. It investigates and celebrates the work of the civil engineers whose pioneering integrated sewer systems brought to a close the devastating cholera epidemics of the mid-19th century and continue to serve a vastly increased population today. And let's not forget those giant fatbergs clogging our underground arteries, or the storm-surge super-structures of tomorrow.


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Evaluating the Potential of Container-Based Sanitation : Sanergy in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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This case study examines the container-based sanitation (CBS) service provided by Sanergy and how its business model fits overall in Nairobi as well as specifically in informal settlements there. Sanergy's basic business concept is to provide safe sanitation to low-income residents of informal settlements in Nairobi and to create a sustainable value chain that converts feces into premium reuse products for agriculture. Sanergy provides single-cubicle, branded Fresh Life Toilets (FLTs) to franchisees for a fee and collects the excreta from the toilets on a frequent basis (daily or every two or three days). Satisfaction expressed by customers with Sanergy's toilets was high and users of Sanergy's toilets are paying much the same rates as they would for other toilet options. Overall, the FLT operation shows promise to provide a highly cost-effective sanitation solution at scale and the evolving policy landscape and significant investment by Sanergy and others has radically changed the status of CBS in a short time. Sanergy plans to scale significantly to serve as many as 500,000 people in its existing areas of operation, an ambitious expansion plan that will warrant further study and monitoring.


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Household Pit Emptying and Reuse Practices in Rural Cambodia
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : The World Bank,

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Poor sanitation and hygiene practices remain a significant challenge for Cambodia. The purpose of this study is based on a request of the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) to identify the behavior change gap as illustrated in fecal sludge management (FSM) in rural areas theory of change. Thus, the main purpose of this research study is to understand current practices of pit emptying and sludge reuse in the rural context of Cambodia and to find drivers and barriers of these pit emptying and sludge usage behaviors. The study is designed with a purpose to track the aspirations, motivations, and barriers impacting such practices in the rural context. Findings from this study is to produce a set of recommendations that can be an informed choice for the MRD to design a rural FSM national guideline. The findings from this study will also provide a key input for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector of Cambodia with a comprehensive information and analysis as a catalyst to understand the views of FSM behaviors and practices from stakeholders, individual households, and private sectors for developing innovative solutions to address issues of FMS management and practice in the rural context.

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