Practical Municipal Sanitation.

Practical Tropical Sanitation

Practical Tropical Sanitation

on sanitation, causes of diseases, mosquitoes, tropical diseases, disinfection, air and ventilation, food, water-supplies, disposal of refuse, etc., and sanitary law. The book is clearly and simply written, and admirably and fully illustrated. The chapter on disinfection struck us as very good and the various means of purifying water are well described. There is a very useful appendix containin...

Codification of Sustainable Development Indicators in New Town of Iran: A Practical Municipal Level Approach

One of the main reasons of unsustainability of city development in Iran is that planners and mayors have not almost been able to create connections between different dimensions of a city. Sustainability indicators are evaluation tools of cities operation applicable in living environmental, economical, and social aspects. The purpose of this paper is to offer a framework including the descriptio...

Sustainable sanitation: experiences in Pune with a municipal - NGO - community partnership

This paper describes a communal toilet construction programme in the city of Pune (India) undertaken through a partnership between the municipal corporation and eight NGOs. It focuses on the 13 toilet blocks that are the responsibility of one of these NGOs, Shelter Associates, and includes details of how they have been working with local residents with regard to design, construction, provision ...

Ecological Sanitation