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parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling far short of the mark. In reality, most basic observations indicate that … water supply coverage is not as good as the figures show while national sanitation continues to be poor even after almost … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …
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The lack of adequate water supply and sanitation services is a major issue related to sustainable development in many … sanitation by 2015. This mostly applies to peri-urban ger areas where people live in gers - the traditional Mongolian portable … improving urban water supply and sanitation in Mongolia. A special focus is placed on domestic consumers, notably the peri …
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field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …
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This article investigates the impact of piped water supply and sanitation on health outcomes in urban Yemen using a … separate identification of water and sanitation impacts. Results indicate that access to piped water supply worsens health …
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This paper examines the impact of drinking water quality and sanitation behavior on child health in rural districts of … methods to quantify the impacts of water quality and sanitation behavior on diarrhea incidence among children under five years … desired health benefits of sanitation. To protect rural households from the risk of contracting communicable diseases …
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age (degradation) of water pipes and lack of complementary sanitation infrastructure play important roles in attenuating …
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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS … constraints faced by poorer households limit their ability to improve sanitation. We also examine the program's scale up process … that all of the sanitation and health benefits accrue from villages where resource agencies implemented the program, while …
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In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning almost 20 years to test the hypothesis that non-notified...
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the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). In June 2014, we reported the results of a survey of rural sanitation behaviour in north … coercion is correlated with variation in sanitation outcomes: in villages where more people report coercive SBM activities …
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In 2010, the United Nations General Assembly recognized access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure a matter of … safe and affordable drinking water and adequate sanitation by 2030, in a gender equitable way. Progress towards these … and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all) and SDG 2 (ending hunger and achieving food security and …
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