WEDC Guides
WEDC guides provide essential information and instruction about specific water, sanitation, hygiene and related subjects. They are produced in a handy A5 format, are copiously illustrated and available to download free of charge. Selected titles are also available in French.
WEDC GUIDES 鈥� ENGLISH
GUIDE No. 35: Soil and infrastructure (forthcoming)
GUIDE No. 36: Timber for infrastructure (forthcoming)
GUIDE No. 37: Shelter in emergencies (forthcoming)
GUIDE No. 38: Institutional buildings and emergencies (forthcoming)
GUIDE No. 39: Roads, bridges and airfields in emergencies (forthcoming)
GUIDE No. 40: Mechanical and electrical plant in emergencies (forthcoming)
GUIDE No. 41: Logistics in emergencies (forthcoming)
GUIDE No. 42: Infrastructure for vulnerable people (forthcoming)
WEDC GUIDES 鈥� FRENCH
Technical Briefs
A number of our guides are extended versions of WEDC-authored technical briefs which first appeared in the journal Waterlines. The original technical briefs are listed below and were compiled in the Practical Action (formerly ITDG) publications The Worth of Water (technical briefs 1–32) and Running Water (technical briefs 33-64). They are also are available in print from .
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- 01. Household water storage
- 02. An introduction to pit latrines
- 03. Protecting a spring
- 04. Lining a hand-dug well
- 05. Slotted bamboo tubewell screen
- 06. Choosing a water-seal latrine
- 07. The water cycle
- 08. Making soap
- 09. Dry latrines
- 10. Waste stabilisation ponds
- 11. Rainwater harvesting
- 12. Septic tanks and aqua privies
- 13. Handpumps
- 14. Above-ground rainwater storage
- 15. Slow sand filter - 1
- 16. Sewerage
- 17. Health water and sanitation - 1
- 18. Water testing
- 19. Health water and sanitation - 2
- 20. Water sampling
- 21. Slow sand filters - 2
- 22. Intakes from rivers
- 23. A guide to sanitation selection
- 24. Groundwater dams
- 25. Eye and skin diseases
- 26. Public standposts
- 27. Discharge measurements and estimates
- 28. Public and communal latrines
- 29. Designing simple pipelines
- 30. Community management
- 31. Latrine vent pipes
- 32. Drainage for improved health
- 33. Maintaining handpumps
- 34. Protecting springs 鈥� an alternative to spring boxes
- 35. Low-lift irrigation pumps
- 36. Ferrocement water tanks
- 37. Re-use of wastewater
- 38. Emergency sanitation for refugees
- 39. Upgrading traditional wells
- 40. Desalination
- 41. VLOM pumps
- 42. Small-scale irrigation design
- 43. Simple drilling methods
- 44. Emergency water supply
- 45. Latrine slabs and seats
- 46. Chlorination
- 47. Improving pond water
- 48. Small earth dams
- 49. Choosing an appropriate technology
- 50. Sanitary surveying
- 51. Water, sanitation and hygiene understanding
- 52. Water 鈥� quality or quantity?
- 53. Training
- 54. Emptying latrine pits
- 55. Water source selection
- 56. Buried and semi-submerged water tanks
- 57. Surface water drainage 鈥� How evaluation can improve performance
- 58. Household water treatment 1
- 59. Household water treatment 2
- 60. Water clarification using Moringa oleifera seed coagulant
- 61. On-plot sanitation in urban areas
- 62. Emergency water supply in cold regions
- 63. Using human waste
- 64. Wastewater treatment options
WHO Sanitation System Fact Sheets
Deisgned by WEDC for the World Health Organization (WHO) these sanitation system fact sheets are stand-alone notes, first published in
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- Fact sheet 1: Dry or flush toilet with onsite disposal
- Fact sheet 2: Dry toilet or urine-diverting dry toilet (UDDT) with onsite treatment in alternating pits or compost chamber
- Fact sheet 3: Flush toilet with onsite treatment in twin pits
- Fact sheet 4: Urine-diverting dry toilet (UDDT) with onsite treatment iin dehydration vault
- Fact sheet 5: Dry or flush toilet with pit, effluent infiltration and offsite treatment of faecal sludge
- Fact sheet 6: Flush (or urine-diverting flush) toilet with biogas reactor and offsite treatment
- Fact sheet 7: Flush toilet with septic tank and effluent infiltration and offsite faecal sludge treatment
- Fact sheet 8: Urine-diverting dry toilet and container-based sanitation with offsite treatment of all contents
- Fact sheet 9: Flush toilet with septic tank, sewerage and offsite treatment of faecal sludge and effluent
- Fact sheet 10: Flush toilet with sewerage and offsite wastewater treatment
- Fact sheet 11: Urine-diverting flush toilet with sewerage and offsite wastewater treatment
Technical Notes on Drinking-Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Emergencies
Written and produced by WEDC for the World Health Organization (WHO).
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- 1. Cleaning and disinfecting wells
- 2. Cleaning and disinfecting boreholes
- 3. Cleaning and disinfecting water storage tanks and tankers
- 4. Rehabilitating small-scale piped water distribution systems
- 5. Emergency treatment of drinking-water at the point of use
- 6. Rehabilitating water treatment works after an emergency
- 7. Solid waste management in emergencies
- 8. Disposal of dead bodies in emergency conditions
- 9. How much water is needed in emergencies
- 10. Hygiene promotion in emergencies
- 11. Measuring chlorine levels in water supplies
- 12. Delivering safe water by tanker
- 13. Planning for excreta disposal in emergencies
- 14. Technical options for excreta disposal in emergencies
- 15. Cleaning wells after seawater flooding
Other resources about emergencies you may find helpful:
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WELL Fact Sheets
An archive of fact sheets produced by WELL, a DFID Resource Centre for water, sanitation and hygiene
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- Anaerobic treatment of municipal wastewater
- Arsenic in drinking water
- Bacteriological testing of water
- Child survival and environmental health
- Chlorination
- Effectiveness of water quality interventions in preventing diarrhoea
- Evaluation of hygiene promotion
- Excreta flies and trachoma
- Field water quality testing in emergencies
- Finding water and sanitation information on the internet
- Health impact of handwashing with soap
- HIV/AIDS and water supply sanitation and hygiene
- Household water treatment
- Household water treatment storage and handling
- Hygiene promotion
- Indoor air pollution cooking stoves and health
- Measuring the health impact of water and sanitation
- Microbiological contamination of water supplies from pit latrines
- Microfinance for sanitation
- Microfinance for water supply services
- Monitoring of water supply coverage
- On-site sanitation in areas with a high groundwater table
- People-centred integrated water resources management (IWRM)
- Personal hygiene behaviour
- Problems in representative sampling in the water and sanitation sector
- Public private partnerships and the poor in water supply projects
- Scaling up community management of rural water supply
- Social marketing a consumer based approach to promoting safe hygiene behaviours
- The process for sanitation marketing
- Waste disposal in developing countries
- Water and livelihoods
- Water quality and water safety plans
- Why promote sanitation