Latrines & Sanitation

Peace Corps, Ghana

Guidelines for onsite sanitation and latrine construction and maintenance, a summary of latrine sanitation options, a latrine use checklist, and a resource for ecological latrine construction.

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No Date | Oasis Design
    While this website is by a US-based consulting business and for US-audiences, it has a good definition of greywater (water that has been used in the home except for toilets), why use it, and how it is legally used in the US.  
No Date | WELL | 2 pages
Two-page summary sheets with illustrations.
2009 | WaterAid
This report documents the results of studies on open defecation in rural communities and the cultural values that reinforce its practise carried out by WaterAid in four West African countries — Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria.
1992 | World Health Organization
This book provides in-depth technical information about the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the major types of on-site sanitation facility, from simple pit latrines to aqua privies and septic tanks. Recognizing that the introduction of on-site sanitation system) involves considerably more than the application of simple, engineering techniques, the authors describe in detail the planning and development processes, and the financial and institutional factors that will need to be taken into account.

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