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EnE 270 Sustainable Sanitation
Function
Environmental 7 Integrated Resource Management
Function 6 Nutrient Containment
5 Nutrient Reuse
4 Pathogen Elimination
User Function 3 Greywater Management
2 Access
1 Excreta Containment
Environment
Environment and
Natural Resources
Society
Health and
SD Economy
Hygiene
Financial and
Economic
Socio-cultural
Issues
and Institutional
Aspects
Figure 1 Sustainable Development Framework
Moving the people to the next level rung means raising the yearning of the
individual to pursue the more advanced rung. It is a must then that people
needs to understand what are the benefits of the next level rung in order for
them to proceed for it. The concept must be packaged such that there is a
problem in the rung they are in for them to move in to the next rung.
Incorporation of creative message like advertisement, education of children
and mothers, community campaign, tapping government leaders and icons
in the media are key interlinks between rungs.
Though function-based sanitation ladder is an improvement from the JMP’s
technology-based sanitation ladder, further improvement should be
proposed which includes parameters and indicators of which will be the basis
of progress. And because the function-based sanitation ladder goes beyond
separation of excreta from human contact, and encompasses greywater and
solid waste management, a different criteria for each aspect of sanitation
should be used.
References
Kvarnstrom, E., McConville J., Johansson M., and Fodge, M. “The Sanitation
Ladder – Need for a Revamp”
Potter, Alana, Klutse, A., Snehalatha M., Batchelor, C., Uandela, A., Naafs, A.,
and Fonseca, C., and Moriarty, P. “Assessing sanitation service
levels”. IRC Interantional Water and Sanitation Centre. September
2010. http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/ lib.nsf/db900sid/ASAZ-
89WGD6/$file/IRCWatSan_Sep2010.pdf?openelement