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<font size="4" color="green">''Sustainable Sanitation for the 21st Century''</font><font size="4" color="green">A sustainable sanitation, sourcebook for training sourcebook is now available for free download</font>
This section is based upon support material for training of professionals for the sanitation and water sector. It has been developed over the last decade by the main authors Jan-Olof Drangert of Linköping University/Vatema, Caroline Schönning of the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, and Björn Vinnerås of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
The sourcebook is the result of experiences gained over the last decade from more than 300 participants attending an international training course and ongoing research.
'''Sustainable Sanitation aims at protecting human and environmental health through safe use and reuse of available resources'''
This Sourcebook and set of 600 animated PowerPoints provides the knowledge and skills required to achieve address the ''five improvements'' below.
# There is no water scarcity in cities, only poor management of the available water.
# Morbidity can be reduced through washing hands and safe handling of child faeces.
# Future toxic shocks can be avoided through harnessing our chemical society by source control of products.
# Food security can be achieved through recirculation reduced wastage, recycling of nutrients and changes in diets.
# Households and residents hold the key to improvements mainly through improved sanitation routines, and also through exercising the power as consumers and voters.
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The material is multi-disciplinary and covers management issues, town planning, management, civil and environmental engineering, public health, urban agriculture, etc.
- You access information and useful references from the Sourcebook (600 700 pages)
- You can combine your own training material with the powerpoints PowerPoints you pick out of this set of 500 600 slides. Below are two examples:
==Quick Downloads==
'''[http://www.sustainablesanitation.info/m3.php Introduction & Chapters]''' - download the PPT and PDF here.
'''[http://www.sustainablesanitation.info/m3a.php Chapter 1] - Sustainable sanitation - a review''' - download the PPT and PDF here.
'''[http://www.sustainablesanitation.info/m3b.php Chapter 2] - Sanitation management today and in the future''' - download the PPT and PDF here.
'''[http://www.sustainablesanitation.info/m3c.php Chapter 3] - Sanitation and public health''' - download the PPT and PDF here.