Sustainability of Water and Sanitation Systems

This text contains 40 papers selected from the 21st WEDC conference, held in Kampala in 1995, on the theme of sustainability of water and sanitation systems. Developing countries experience special difficulties in maintaining systems in full working order, so maintenance is a recurring topic. Other topics include the sustainable development of underground and surface water resources, and sustainable hygiene education to enable communities to derive long-term benefits from new or improved facilities. The majority of the papers in this book are based on practical experience in trying to ensure that the systems in which the authors were involved were planned for, and implemented, with long term sustainability in mind. Most of the experience presented is from across Africa.