Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines
The government of Bangladesh is increasingly paying attention to the safe collection and disposal of fecal sludge from pit latrines in rural areas. In this paper, we report on current sludge disposal practices from single-pit latrines, by conducting a survey of 1,091 households with pit latrines in...
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| author | Balasubramanya, Soumya Evans, E. Ahmed, R. Habib, A. Asad, N.S.M. Rahman, M. Hasan, M. Dey, D. Camargo Valero, M.A. Rao, Krishna Chaitanya Fernando, Sudarshana |
| author_browse | Ahmed, R. Asad, N.S.M. Balasubramanya, Soumya Camargo Valero, M.A. Dey, D. Evans, E. Fernando, Sudarshana Habib, A. Hasan, M. Rahman, M. Rao, Krishna Chaitanya |
| author_facet | Balasubramanya, Soumya Evans, E. Ahmed, R. Habib, A. Asad, N.S.M. Rahman, M. Hasan, M. Dey, D. Camargo Valero, M.A. Rao, Krishna Chaitanya Fernando, Sudarshana |
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| description | The government of Bangladesh is increasingly paying attention to the safe collection and disposal of fecal sludge from pit latrines in rural areas. In this paper, we report on current sludge disposal practices from single-pit latrines, by conducting a survey of 1,091 households with pit latrines in a rural subdistrict of Bangladesh. Almost all households were using their pits, and 90% reported that hiring pit emptiers to empty the pit for reuse was the dominant pit management practice. However, 90% of households also reported that the sludge from these pits would be disposed of in the vicinity of their homes, by digging wide and shallow troughs in the soil to absorb the sludge. These results indicate an urgent need to design an organized service that safely transports fecal sludge away for treatment. The National Committee for Fecal Sludge Management, constituted by the government of Bangladesh, is using these results to design policy for sludge management. |
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| spelling | CGSpace812332025-03-11T09:50:20Z Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines Balasubramanya, Soumya Evans, E. Ahmed, R. Habib, A. Asad, N.S.M. Rahman, M. Hasan, M. Dey, D. Camargo Valero, M.A. Rao, Krishna Chaitanya Fernando, Sudarshana faecal sludge waste disposal waste management pit latrines sanitation rural areas household wastes transport infrastructure public health health hazards environmental health The government of Bangladesh is increasingly paying attention to the safe collection and disposal of fecal sludge from pit latrines in rural areas. In this paper, we report on current sludge disposal practices from single-pit latrines, by conducting a survey of 1,091 households with pit latrines in a rural subdistrict of Bangladesh. Almost all households were using their pits, and 90% reported that hiring pit emptiers to empty the pit for reuse was the dominant pit management practice. However, 90% of households also reported that the sludge from these pits would be disposed of in the vicinity of their homes, by digging wide and shallow troughs in the soil to absorb the sludge. These results indicate an urgent need to design an organized service that safely transports fecal sludge away for treatment. The National Committee for Fecal Sludge Management, constituted by the government of Bangladesh, is using these results to design policy for sludge management. 2017-03-01 2017-05-29T07:42:12Z 2017-05-29T07:42:12Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81233 en Open Access IWA Publishing Balasubramanya, Soumya; Evans, E.; Ahmed, R.; Habib, A.; Asad, N. S. M.; Rahman, M.; Hasan, M.; Dey, D.; Camargo-Valero, M.; Rao, Krishna Chaitanya; Fernando, Sudarshana. 2017. Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 8p. (Online first). doi: 10.2166/washdev.2017.073 |
| spellingShingle | faecal sludge waste disposal waste management pit latrines sanitation rural areas household wastes transport infrastructure public health health hazards environmental health Balasubramanya, Soumya Evans, E. Ahmed, R. Habib, A. Asad, N.S.M. Rahman, M. Hasan, M. Dey, D. Camargo Valero, M.A. Rao, Krishna Chaitanya Fernando, Sudarshana Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines |
| title | Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines |
| title_full | Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines |
| title_fullStr | Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines |
| title_full_unstemmed | Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines |
| title_short | Take it away: the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single-pit latrines |
| title_sort | take it away the need for designing fecal sludge disposal services for single pit latrines |
| topic | faecal sludge waste disposal waste management pit latrines sanitation rural areas household wastes transport infrastructure public health health hazards environmental health |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/81233 |
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