Moving up the On-Site Sanitation ladder in urban India through better systems and standards

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

卷:280

Article

Dasgupta, Shubhagato¹  Agarwal, Neha¹  Mukherjee, Anindita¹ 

[1] Scaling City Inst India, Ctr Policy Res, New Delhi, India

关键词: On-site Sanitation;    Regulation;    Standards;    Septic tanks;    Public health;    Water pollution;    Prefabrication;    India;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111656

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Wastewater management predominantly takes the form of On-Site Sanitation (OSS) in lowand lower-middle income countries (LMICs). In India, households construct and operate OSS systems in the absence of regulatory oversight and seldom in compliance with the national technical standards - posing a risk to water sources and public health. The present paper reviews novel evidence on the quality of these systems from a multi-state survey of 3000 households in India to identify policy and practice interventions for creating sustainable urban sanitation futures. The paper argues for local and national governments to unlock the potential of OSS as a safe and longterm wastewater management solution through (1) re-envisioning the system design to simultaneously meet household and environmental needs, (2) fostering prefabrication of systems as a means to distribute the compliance responsibility optimally, and (3) updating technical standards for facilitating such a paradigm shift.

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