The international debate on the question of whether shared and/or public sanitation facilities should be considered … improved is still open. The concern is that a shared sanitation facility cannot be maintained in hygienic conditions when used … percent of households have access to private sanitation facilities; the remaining 78 percent share their toilet with an …

against women. In recent years, however, women successfully demand private sanitation facilities from potential husbands as a … strong sanitation preferences drive male investment in toilets. Moreover, I demonstrate women’s ability to secure latrines … increases when they are relatively scarce in a marriage market. I test these predictions empirically by studying a sanitation …

that the majority of Kampala’s urban poor have access to on-site sanitation facilities. Despite the widespread … accessibility to sanitation, the conditions of many facilities are unsatisfactory due to the generally large number of users per … questioning the true level of sanitation access in Kampala’s low-income areas. Household investment in good-quality on …

In this paper we have attempted to unravel the disparity in sanitation facilities across rural and urban regions of … Indian states and the impact of sanitation on health outcomes. Based on the 69th National Sample Survey data set which covers … more than 95 000 households we find a wide disparity in the access to sanitation facilities across rural and urban areas of …

use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify the impact of access to improved sanitation on diarrheal morbidity for … find that access to improved sanitation reduces the risk of contracting diarrhea. Access to improved sanitation decreases … child diarrhea incidence by 2.2 percentage points. There is considerable heterogeneity in the impacts of improved sanitation …

Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, it was common knowledge in the Latin American water and sanitation sector the …

Brazil has more than 23 million rural people with unimproved sanitation, which corresponds to about 75% of rural … main disease caused by unimproved sanitation) similar to the poorer countries of Africa and it is the third largest in … caused by implementation of a technological proposal for sanitation: “septic cesspool biodigester”, as an alternative for the …