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Lecture Notes


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1Introduction to water and sanitation development
2Basic concepts, water rich / water poor, and pictoral tour of global water and sanitation (PDF - 2.8 MB)
3

A utility's pro-poor approach in Bangalore's slums (PDF)

Guest lecture: Genevieve Connors, Urban Development Sector Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank

4Water, sanitation and hygiene-related diseases (PDF - 1.7 MB)
5Sources of water and water supply planning (PDF 1 of 2 - 6.6 MB) (PDF 2 of 2 - 3.9 MB)
6Water quality and simple water quality field testing demo (PDF - 1.2 MB)
7Decentralized household water treatment and safe storage (PDF - 5.4 MB)
8

Centralized water treatment: MWRA and Beijing (PDF 1 - 1.5 MB) (PDF 2 - 3.0 MB)

Guest lecture: Joshua Das, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority

9

Sewage collection systems

Guest lecture: Earthea Nance, Virginia Tech

10

Sanitation history, centralized wastewater treatment, and reuse (PDF - 4.4 MB)

Parts of this lecture are adapted from the following:

Amazon logo Outwater, Alice. Water: A Natural History. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780465037803.

11

Water and sanitation financing (PDF - 2.2 MB)

Guest lecture: Prof. Peter Rogers, Harvard University

12

On-site excreta disposal (PDF - 5.4 MB)

Guest lecture: Brian Robinson (with Susan Murcott)

13Wrap-up

 








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