I went to an interesting event at LSHTM last night run by Countdown 2030, on tracking aid flows to track global aid flows to reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH). Their dataset is here. Yet another reminder that the health sector is way ahead of the WASH sector on so many analytical questions, but… Continue reading Sanitation’s share of water sector aid is falling
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Incremental benefits from increases in sanitation service level
The Indus valley civilisation (c.2,000 BCE) coupled on-plot water supply from wells with the first known sewers. However, it was the Minoans (also c.2,000 BCE) who were the first to have piped water systems – I marvelled at the clay pipes and stone sewers at Knossos on Crete. The Minoans understood that piped water on… Continue reading Incremental benefits from increases in sanitation service level
Determinants of urban sanitation costs – ‘willingness to connect’ and scale effects
The Daudey 2017 paper (open access) I reviewed in this post has a useful table (p.7) of 9 determinants of urban sanitation costs. I would tend to group them more simply into three headings as below - I won't go into these more here as the table in the paper is good. 1. Technology: technology type, level… Continue reading Determinants of urban sanitation costs – ‘willingness to connect’ and scale effects
Sanitation as a public good and private asset
I often hear people say "sanitation is a public good", but sanitation services are not strictly speaking public goods according to the definition of such goods. In this post, I explain that it's the excreta-free environment they enable which is the public good A toilet (≠ sanitation) is a private good / asset. It is… Continue reading Sanitation as a public good and private asset
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