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This is a place to share information, resources, links, experiences, comments and suggestions related to sanitation.

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http://home.arcor.de/clayhouse/toilet/toilet.htm

The CHP’s Dry Toilet System offers an ecological and economical alternative - an innovative system that helps saving water and money.

The site provide information and drawings on the dry toilet system.

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A poster showing the advantages of ecological sanitation systems.

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Hello,

My name is Tearrie and I am with the Hesperian Foundation, a non-profit publisher of community health materials. Here is the link to a book we offer called Sanitation and Cleanliness, which provides basic information and learning activities to help communities understand and prevent sanitation-related health problems.

http://www.hesperian.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=HB&Screen=PROD&Prod...

this booklet has also been translated into Spanish and French and can be downloaded for free on our website at http://www.hesperian.org/publications_download.php#environmental .

I hope you find this information useful,
Hesperian
www.hesperian.org

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Hello Tearrie,

Thank you for this link and information! Yes I think it will be of use to many groups. I actually just had someone asking about materials in Spanish and French so I direct them to this booklet.

Regards,

Barb

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Community Led Total Sanitation website
http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/

From the site:

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The CLTS approach
Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) is an innovative methodology for mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation (OD). Communities are facilitated to conduct their own appraisal and analysis of open defecation (OD) and take their own action to become ODF (open defecation free).

At the heart of CLTS lies the recognition that merely providing toilets does not guarantee their use, nor result in improved sanitation and hygiene. Earlier approaches to sanitation prescribed high initial standards and offered subsidies as an incentive. But this often led to uneven adoption, problems with long-term sustainability and only partial use. It also created a culture of dependence on subsidies. Open defecation and the cycle of fecal–oral contamination continued to spread disease.

In contrast, CLTS focuses on the behavioural change needed to ensure real and sustainable improvements – investing in community mobilisation instead of hardware, and shifting the focus from toilet construction for individual households to the creation of “open defecation-free” villages. By raising awareness that as long as even a minority continues to defecate in the open everyone is at risk of disease, CLTS triggers the community’s desire for change, propels them into action and encourages innovation, mutual support and appropriate local solutions, thus leading to greater ownership and sustainability.

(This was originally posted to New London village by Gary Jenkins and I thought it would be good to share with this group)

Mary

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