Need assessment for sustainable sanitation service for a tribal school in rural Maharashtra

Abstract

Sustainable sanitation is defined as promoting and improving health and hygiene, protecting environmental and natural resources, and being technologically and operationally appropriate, financially and economically viable. Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services levels still remains low priority in rural India despite high levels of public expenditure during recent decades. The authors strongly believe that a systematic process-oriented assessment approach is one key to sustainable sanitation. This paper will discuss the merits and challenges of these planning methodologies in reference to experience from a tribal school in rural Maharashtra. The intent of this study is to compare various wastewater systems from different perspectives.