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Adequate and Equitable Sanitation in Sri Lanka: Achievements, Issues, and Challenges

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Clean Water and Sanitation

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Developing Countries; Sanitation; Sanitation Sector; SDG6; South Asia; Sri Lanka;

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Adequate sanitation in SDG6 is defined by the World Health Organization as the “use of an improved type of sanitation facility that is not shared with other households and from which the excreta produced are either safely treated in situ or transported and treated off-site” (World Health Organization 2020). Safely disposed in situ or safely managed refers to removing excreta without human contact. In an in situ or onsite sanitation system, sewage and wastewater are collected, sorted, or treated on the site where they are generated. In an offsite sanitation system, excreta and wastewater are transferred to a sanitation system elsewhere, using a sewer technology (Tilley et al. 2014). Sewage is the waste matter, such as feces and wastewater, that flows into sewers. Sewer is a conduit for carrying off sewage. Sewerage is the sewer system comprising main pumping stations, treatment works,...

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  1. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Praveena Rajkobal

  2. University of Western Sydney Online, Melbourne, Australia

    Handun Athukorala

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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Amanda Lange Salvia

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Environmental Science Department, Egerton University, Egerton, Kenya

    Wilkister Nyaora Moturi

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Rajkobal, P., Athukorala, H. (2021). Adequate and Equitable Sanitation in Sri Lanka: Achievements, Issues, and Challenges. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Clean Water and Sanitation. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70061-8_172-1

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