Appropriate sanitation for very low income communities: proceedings and recommendations

RESUMO

It is now well established that the provision of safe water supplies and improved sanitaion form the basic foundation on which all public health must be built. Despite this fact; development programmes in Africa have placed far more emphasis on the provision of improved water supplies; and far too little attention on the provision of improved sanitation not only in the past; but also in the present. Perhaps this is because the provision of water may be more appealing to donors and recipients alike and possibly more prestigious for the Governments concerned. If any group is hardest hit by this imbalance; it is those who live in very low income communities. They often have meagre resources which do not permit them to attempt any self improvement and often have no other support or encouragment. As a result; most low income communities in the developing world have inadequate sanitary facilities