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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Basic sanitation"”.
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Programa saneamento expresso: potencial de disseminação estratégica das inter-relações entre gestão de recursos hídricos, saneamento básico e educação ambiental
Basic sanitation plays an important role in environmental sustainability, especially with regard to the preservation of water resources. The integration between policies that promote water resources management, basic sanitation and environmental education contributes to citizen education, enabling …
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Exploring determinants of community led total sanitation (clts) on latrine adoption among rural cambodians utilizing the diffusion of innovation theory: a pragmatic approach
… of diarrheal diseases and health consequences. Basic sanitation facilities may mitigate adverse health effects associated with open defecation. In Cambodia, the lowest percentage of basic sanitation (48.3%) has been reached compared to neighboring countries. This dissertation research explored …
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International water and food security development: Performance evaluation and assessment of research needs at multiple scales
… more food, better nutrition, improved water, and basic sanitation facilities worldwide. This progress has been accomplished through the dedication of international organizations, non-governmental organizations, country-level governments, private corporations, and individuals at international, …
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Implementing sanitation for informal settlements: conflicting rationalities in South Africa
… strategies to support its objective of providing basic sanitation access to the urban poor by 2014. The state has yet to attain this objective - ostensibly due to poor municipal execution of national policy. This thesis challenges this assessment, as it overlooks how non-municipal actors have …
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Applying the principles of Missio Dei: Ministering to the Mozambican migrants in the North West province of South Africa
… serious social problems affecting the areas of basic sanitation, health, food, education and housing. In addition to social problems, Mozambican communities also lack spiritual help. Local churches remain weak and face diverse problems such as difficulty in forming new leaders, lack of teachers …
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Decentralized Sanitation Systems for Densely Populated Regions: Design, Prototyping, and Systems Value Analysis
… on earth, and 2.3 billion lack access to basic sanitation facilities such as toilets or latrines. The International Water Association estimates that 80% of all wastewater gets discharged into waterways. Untreated wastewater affects the community as easily as water flows. Toilets with …
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Development of a low-firepower continuous feed biomass combustor
Approximately 25% of world's population lacks basic sanitation amenities. This lack of sanitation leads directly to the spread of contagious diseases and parasites. One method that can help mitigate these consequences is the thermal treatment of human feces in a combustion system. Colorado State …
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A technological, economic and social exploration of phosphate recovery from centralised sewage treatment in a transitioning economy context
… as it battles to provide universal access to basic sanitation needs and is faced with massive infrastructure maintenance and upgrading backlogs in the sanitation sector. Mature phosphate recovery technologies that produce high quality struvite for use in food production do exist. However, …
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Converging intentions, diverging realities : rights vs. growth-based approaches to safe sanitation provision in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… equitable, universal access to water and sanitation is still out of reach for most cities. According to a progress report by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program, in 2015, 844 million people lacked even the most basic access to safe drinking water (WHO/UNICEF, 2017). The case for …
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Water Infrastructure finance in Nambia: Analysing the participation of State and non-State actors
… supply of clean drinking water and provision of basic sanitation. Infrastructure forms the basic medium for water generation, processing, transportation, and storage. Efforts to improve this in many developing countries have predominantly been the responsibility of the State. However, in recent …
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Role of the private sector in providing sanitation services to the poor in India
"Sanitation is more important than independence." - Mahatma Gandhi. Lack of sanitation causes nearly three million deaths around the world annually. This issue compounded by the negative economic impact of poor sanitation, costing developing countries billions of dollars a year. Despite decades of …
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'What is to be sustained for whom?': Equity as a key to sustainable sanitation in South African informal settlements
Universal access to sustainable and equitable sanitation is a Sustainable Development Goal on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The South African government has taken strides to try and meet both international and domestic development goals with its Free Basic Sanitation policy, for …
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Role of Information Technology in Policy Implementation of Maternal Health Benefits in India
… has become more pervasive than the most basic infrastructure across the world. There are over 7 billion mobile phones subscriptions worldwide, but only 4.5 billion people have access to basic sanitation facilities, implying more people have access to mobile phones than toilets in the …
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Governança da política de saneamento, uma proposta de índices de sustentabilidade no Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul (ISSB-MS)
Nesta tese, investiga-se a governança das políticas públicas de Saneamento Básico e o desenvolvimento de um índice de sustentabilidade, buscando contribuir com a avaliação da gestão integrada desses serviços públicos essenciais. Assim, esta tese versa sobre a “Governança da Política de Saneamento, …
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Regulación del servicio público de acueducto en Colombia : una mirada reflexiva desde el punto de vista normativo e institucional
El marco regulatorio del SPD de acueducto en Colombia es eficiente en términos relativos, de igual manera, no se cuenta con una CRA autónoma e independiente, situación que deriva en serias distorsiones contenidas en las disposiciones regulatorias emanadas por este órgano. En consecuencia, el …