Health, Sanitation and Wastewater Treatment

On successful completion of this short course you will be able to:

• Identify the principal transmission routes of water and excreta-related diseases
• Recognise the disease risks associated with water and excreta-related behaviours
• Design a basic programme for hygiene evaluation and promotion
• Select and design a sanitation system for a given situation
• Evaluate excreta/wastewater management systems and recommend improvements/alternatives.

• Health: health and hygiene in developing countries; classification of water- and excreta-related disease; risk behaviours in relation to water-and excreta-related disease; health and hygiene impact assessment; hygiene evaluation and promotion
• On-site excreta disposal systems: why they are not used, benefits of their use, pit latrines, VIP latrines, pour-flush latrines, composting latrines, septic tanks, soakage systems, ecological sanitation
• Urban sanitation: conventional and low-cost sewerage, cartage; urban drainage; solid waste management
• Wastewater treatment: the need for sewage treatment: environmental pollution, health impacts, economic impacts
• Conventional sewage treatment
• Waste stabilisation ponds
• Reed beds.