Sanitation and Hygiene: approaches for sustainable development

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Sanitation and Hygiene approaches for
sustainable development

• Jon Lane, WSSCC
• 12 August 2007

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Where are we now?
Clean
Shitty
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A world of two halves, a job half-done

• Half the world has sanitation
• Half the world does not even have basic sanitation

collection, transport, treatment and disposal or
reuse of human excreta, domestic waste water and
solid waste and associated hygiene promotion.
collection, transport, treatment and disposal or
reuse of human excreta, domestic waste water and
solid waste and associated hygiene promotion.

disposal of human excreta
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Sanitation and health

• Main arguments used by sector professionals
• Reduce faeco-oral diseases
• Infant mortality from diarrhoea is five times
  that from AIDS
• British Medical Journal readers' poll result
• (These people are doctors!).

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Sanitation and social development

• Main arguments used by the people themselves
• Privacy, dignity, convenience, status
• Women's education
• People will sustain their changed behaviours if
  they are motivated
• Hence implement sanitation by creating demand
  not by subsidising supply.

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Sanitation and economic development

• Main arguments that appeal to decision-makers
• 1 spent on sanitation saves 7
• Sanitation has big externalities
• Women's education (again)
• Link between IMR and economic growth.

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Sanitation and the environment

• A neglected connection
• One person can affect many
• Need to safeguard drinking water supplies
  (surface water and ground water) and coastal
  waters
• Also re-use compost for agriculture
• Will all become more important.

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How to achieve our goals

• Scale up existing good ideas
• Think on a much larger scale
• 10 Bn per year may sound big to us but not to
  other people
• Win over other people to our cause
• We have the technologies, the approaches and the
  people
• we can do it!

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Our task this year

• Internal activities
• Analyse our work
• Get the science right
• Agree the important points
• Hence agree our messages
• (this Seminar is doing this).

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Our task next year

• External activities
• Throw our energy into advocacy
• All use the same few messages
• Avoid internal splits and arguments
• (This will be our big chance).

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If we get it right
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• Thank you