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kobvindex_HPB921176123
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages)
ISBN:
9781780407227
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178040722X
Content:
This manual and the free downloadable costing tool is the outcome of a project identified by the Water, Sanitation and Health Programme (WSH) of the World Health Organization (WHO) faced with the challenge of costing options for improved access, both to safe drinking water and to adequate sanitation.
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Table of contents: About the authors, Foreword, Preface and Acknowledgements. Chapter 1 -- Background and objectives: Water and health -- Social valuation of water supply projects -- Costing method -- Target audience. Chapter 2 -- Conceptual framework: Identifying locally appropriate technologies -- Costing a drinking-water supply technology. Chapter 3 -- Improved drinking-water supply technologies for low-income communities: Drinking-water supply systems -- Objectives of drinking-water supply -- Improved drinking-water supply technologies. Chapter 4 -- Locally appropriate technologies: Concept of locally appropriate technology -- Criteria for the identification of constraints and risks -- Assessment of water supply needs -- Selection of locally appropriate water supply technologies. Chapter 5 -- Costing method: Rationale and issues -- Typology of costs -- Sources of data on costs -- Costing questionnaires -- Social costing of water supply projects. Chapter 6 -- Costing implementation: The process of costing a water supply project -- The Water Supply Costing Processor (WSCP) -- An introduction to the use of the WSCP. Annexes: Drinking-water supply technologies -- Project questionnaires -- Inputs of improved water supply technologies -- Costing questionnaires -- Time profiles of a beta distribution function -- Costing case studies in Peru.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Carlevaro, Fabrizio. Costing improved water supply systems for low-income communities : a practical manual. London, England : IWA Publishing, ©2015 ISBN 9781780407210
Language:
English
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