Category:Water and sanitation for developing countries
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[edit] Developing this Water&Sanitation category
Being able to offer the right information on this crucial section asks for a matrix or tree, to structure the diversity of the related topics. Someone with experience to do this proper should take up this task soonest.
For the time being Demotech uses this page to invite you to the Water&Sanitation section of its own website. Many of the AT-design initiatives described there contain links to sources that should be represented here in the first place. These links you'll find in the second, lower half of each page.
The Demotech website also contains a Wiki section. Inputs are welcome.
[edit] Message from Village Earth
After sufficient food, a good clean water supply and adequate sanitation system are considered to be the most important factors in ensuring good health in a community. Improved water supply and sanitation systems were major elements of the public health measures that drastically cut death rates and improved health levels in the industrialized countries. Though it is not generally appreciated, these measures have been considerably more important than curative medicine in contributing to good health, long life expectancy and low infant mortality. Infant diarrhea, the largest killer in developing countries, is closely related to poor water quality.
Due to their great potential benefits, village water supply systems have been favorite development projects of government and international agencies for several decades. They make a revealing topic of study for appropriate technology advocates, as they represent one task for which small-scale technology has been widely promoted. A basic conclusion: a water supply or sanitation project that is imposed on a community, without community involvement in determining the need for and nature of the system, or without an effort to train some community members to do maintenance and repair, is very likely to fail.
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