The role of emptying services in provision of safely managed sanitation: A classification and quantification of the needs of LMICs.

ABSTRACT: Classifications for onsite sanitation in terms of facility type (septic tanks, pit latrines) exist, but connecting these facilities to the wider sanitation value chain via improved containment, emptying, and collection has not been well explored. Using existing Joint Monitoring Programme facility classifications and secondary data on piped water access, a Service Typology was developed to classify and quantify the primary emptying service needs of household level onsite sanitation facilities. Facilities in six Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) regions were classified as Emptiable (faecal sludge can be removed either via Mechanized or Non-Mechanized means) or Unemptiable. Of the 722 million household level sanitation facilities assessed in these regions, 32% were found to be emptiable via

SUBMITTER: Greene N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8178437 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature