Essays about: "water sanitation and hygiene"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 30 essays containing the words water sanitation and hygiene.

1. 21. Adopting a resilience lens in managing decentralized water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems

   University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

   Author : Claudius Mpofu; [2018]
   Keywords : resilience; drinking water; sanitation and hygiene WASH ; decentralized systems; small-scale; WASH planning;

   Abstract : Climate change and increased pressure on water resources through urban and peri-urban population growth present some major uncertainties to the sustainable provision of good quality water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services, particularly to small-scale decentralized systems which are considered more vulnerable compared to centralized systems. The concept of “resilience” could be useful when dealing with such uncertainties. READ MORE

3. 22. The Sidelined Cross-Cutting Issue: Mainstreaming Environment into the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Cluster

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : Moritz Hauer; [2017]
   Keywords : environment; humanitarian assistance; environmental mainstreaming; WASH; environment-humanitarian nexus; disaster response; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Addressing key environmental concerns during humanitarian assistance is critical to prevent additional hazards, reduce risks, and to not further increase the vulnerability of disaster-affected populations. However, the environment remains an underappreciated cross-cutting issue within the humanitarian sector and efforts to systematically integrate environmental concerns into humanitarian assistance as well as to reduce its environmental impacts are quite limited. READ MORE

4. 23. Overlooking Girls’ Wellbeing : The opportunity cost of education encountered by menstruating schoolgirls in Sub Saharan Africa

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

   Author : Anna Charlotta Rosenberg; [2015]
   Keywords : Menstrual Hygiene Management; Capability Approach; Water Sanitation and Hygiene.;

   Abstract : Educating girls is advantageous for future livelihood security and socio economic development. Menstruating schoolgirls especially need to experience improved menstrual hygiene management (MHM) within schools in order to obtain quality education towards securing future as well as present wellbeing. READ MORE

5. 24. WATER RESOURCES IN NAKAMTENGA, BURKINA FASO : QUALITY, QUANTITY AND RISKS

   University essay from KTH/Industriell ekologi

   Author : Gustav Isaksson; Niklas Andersson; [2014]
   Keywords : Burkina Faso; water quality; Nakamtenga; water handling; wells; contamination risks.;

   Abstract : Nakamtenga is situated in Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in the world suffering from lack of potable water and food security, leading to starvation and illnesses such as diarrhea. The purpose and goal of the field study was consequently to analyze the water situation in Nakamtenga so that the results and conclusions drawn from it could help to improve the water situation. READ MORE

6. 25. preliminary study of a Water, Hygiene and Ecological Sanitation project in a rural village in Bihar state of India.

   University essay from KTH/Mark- och vattenteknik

   Author : Abhilash Salimath; [2014]
   Keywords : Sanitation; Open Defecation; CompostEra; MHM; Ecosan; PAR;

   Abstract : There are 2.6 billion people who have no access to "improved sanitation" all over the world, of which 814 million people live in India. As a result of this, people resort to open defecation and this causes serious damage to the people‟s health and also pollutes the surrounding environment. READ MORE